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"Eat a good breakfast to start a good day," should have to start the day right after the Mid-Morning Fatigue Affects School Work! says the U. S. Bureau of Human Nutrition, long foodless night. And it's so delicious, it If your child acts dull and and it adds, "Something hot is cheering, and helps make breakfast a real joy for your listless in the middle of the tones up the whole digestive route." Hot child ! Hot Ovaltine takes no extra time. While morning, look first to his Chocolate Flavored Ovaltine is the right you wait for your morning coffee, just stir breakfast! Surveys indicate a shockingly large number of kind of hot drink for children's breakfasts. three teaspoonfuls of Ovaltine into a cup of children fail to eat enough It supplies food essentials that every child hot milk and it's ready to serve! breakfast. Authorities say children cannot readily make up for it at other meals without over-eating. Breakfast Considered HOW OVALTINE SUPPLEMENTS MILK An inadequate breakfast can mm^m OVALTINE inn inn MILK cause poor concentration, lack Day's Most Important of alertness, lower grades. A Vitamin D gives your Meal, the Year 'Round! good breakfast Iron child the start he needs to do

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>S# Effective ffe/p LETTERS HEADACHE TO THE EDITORS ROBINSON — LA MOTTA

Upset Stomach -Jumpy Nerves Sirs: Your pictures of the La Motta and Robinson fight are really great ("The Robinsons and the La Mottas Co to a Great Fight," Life, Feb. 26).

J. A. Herschman Gibbon, Minn.

Sirs:

Congratulations! You did it again

. . . with the most superb fipht pictures ever put LBto any magazine. George M. Benda Durham, N.C.

• Life is indebted to the Interna- tional Boxing Club of Chicago for co-

operation which made it possible for Life to station four photographers at an already crowded ringside.—ED.

Sirs:

Sugar Ray may have been busy that night, but no more so than his wife who, according to your pictures, wore no earrings in the early rounds, put them on before the 9th, off again in the 11th Get effective relief from headache misery and on again when end was in sight. fast with Bromo-Seltzer. It effervesces in- stand y faster than any tablet product you'tt Albert A. Seasoncood ever tried — ready to go to work at once to Melrose Park, Pa. 1. Reiipvp headache pain. 2. Neutralize excess stomach acidity* 3. Quiet jittery, jumpy nerves. For best results, use cold water. Follow the label, avoid excessive use. Get Bromo- Seltzer at your druggist's today. A product of Emerson Drug Co. nn

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• Mrs. Robinson pulled her earrings nerv ously on and off all through the fight. The one on her left ear fell off during one of her sister's excited hugs, was replaced by fight's end with the one from right ear. —ED. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

• CONTINUCO DEBBIE REYNOLDS Sirs: NEW PILL The picture of Debbie Reynolds for Life'* cover (Feb. 26) is the beat. Your second and third choices are good loo. C. Pail Wight Old Orchard Beach, Maine

Sirs: You take -10 pictures of Debbie, then print the most unattractive on the Stops all fear of offending cover. Unpardonable bad taste. in close contact ^gj* William A. Buckner New York, N.Y.

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SECONO CHOICE THIRD CHOICE aitofi* • Most of the readers who comment- ed agreed with Life's choice. Read- ers* runners-up are shown above. BAD BREATH, TOO!^ —ED. f Take one or two Nulla tablets AMERICA'S JUST CAUSE daily! Then no amount of rushing or nervous excitement can produce Sirs: the slightest body odor. Women's The conclusion you reach on Wash- special odor problems— during the ington's warning against European en- "difficult" period, for instance— are tanglement is not in accordance with stopped! Even your socks and un- the facts of history ("America's Just derwear carry no odor. Your dresses Cause," Life, Feb. 26). Washington and sweaters never pick up a trace of unpleasant perspiration odor. never indicated either in his speeches That's because you have no odors or official acts that he envisioned this when you take Nullo regularly. nation playing world policeman. On the contrary, he hoped we would have Eosy to Carry! Easy fo Take/ the good sense to preserve our liberties For bad breath, chew Nullo. Even and strengthen national unity at home garlic, alcohol, and tobacco are no and become so strong that no enemy match for Nullo. Try it today! If not delighted, could overcome us. your money back! Nullo is clinically tested . . . abso- William C. Duncan lutely harmless. Butavia, III. THE DE PRE E COMPANY, Holland, Michigan Esiabtithtd 1906 • Manufacturers of Sirs: Nur$m Brand Drugt and Wh*afomin Vitamin, You have performed a great public service in rescuing our first president from the fuddy-duddy ranks of the isolationists. Charles H. Branch College Park, Ga.

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First in the Fit Parade LETTERS AMAZING- N/EW TO THE EDITORS HAT DEVELOPMENT! ..•Carter's Trigs! i« i CONTINUED i -— are shared by man v. However the sum of Washington s words and acts Get comfort, get Trigs. demonstrate to Life's satisfaction look! ft that he indeed did think of the new America as a country "aware of and # Sit easy, bend easy. The trick is in the knitting. responsive to (he world about it" no more tjian Only Carter's knit gives Carter's fit and that it was America's mission to keep alive "the fires of liberty" in the world. ED. . . . and the elastic will never let you down. — (And cotton knits need no ironing) You mention that Washington warned us against "entangling alli-

ances." Jefferson, I believe, was the DAD selected Trigs athletic shirt at $1.00 one who made the statement. Wash- and briefs at $1.10. ington warned us against "perma- lad's shirt $.85 and briefs $ .89. nent" alliances and gave his blessing to temporary alliances if for our good.

YOUR CHOICE can be Trigs in briefs, Li.nwood S. Elliott mid-lengths or longs, athletic shirts or Portland, Maine T-shirts. Carter makes 'em all! • Life used a familiar phrase com- monly attributed to Washington. W hat he said precisely was, "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion

of the foreign world, so -far, I mean,

as we are now at liberty to do it. In his inaugural address Jefferson said, "Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none."— ED.

OTHER U.N. TROOPS

Sirs: Thank you for "Other Troops: They Also Serve" (Life, Feb. 26). It is most encouraging to know that other countries are sharing the brunt of the Korean war. Arthur F. Werner Buffalo, N.Y.

• Most recent reports on U.N. battle casualties (includingdead, wounded, CHAMP HAT missing in action and prisoners of

war) : Turkey. 948; United King- dom, 892; France, 374; Australia. 50 265; Philippines, 150; Netherlands, 106; Greece, 66: Canada, 30; New Zealand, 7 —ED. 7 Just place two packs of cigar- Sirs:

ettes on Your head I That's exact- The picture of a Turkish gunner and a Korean girl looking at an Amer- ly how light the Featherweight ican enmic book is captioned: "Both Champ feels! Why? Because an of them seem happy though neither can read or speak English." The comic entirely new, exclusive Champ book they are perusing is Henry. process works wonders with the Henry is a mute character and depends for his humor on action, not words. felt — takes out the weight, puts

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Copyrighted material LETTERS TO THE EDITORS • CONTINUED Soaping dulls hair_ Big Ben WINTER IN MAINE Sirs:

Photographer Kosti Ruohomaa is is family man to be congratulated for his "Winter in Halo glorifies it! a Maine" (Life, Feb. 26). Never before

have I seen photographs so expressive of the majestic solitude of a winter night in the country. Every one of these scenes, from the homelv realism of the di ner near Waldoboro to the gla- cial splendor of the Pemaquid Light, is a masterpiece of sensitivity.

Bill OYLEB Jr. NorthuVId, Minn.

Sirs:

What a joy it was today to sit peace- fully in my quiet home and cnjny those beautiful pictures of scenes taken in Maine. So many of them recalled my childhood days over half a century ago

when, as a girl in my teens, I used to tramp with my friends through just such heavy snows. Virginia Watson Rf.eve Toms River, N.J.

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I take exception to the remark about Maine's having four to eight feet of BABY BEN ALARM. Popular little snow. The snow is practically gone brother of Big Ben. He has a quiet now, except in the woods where the sun does not reach it. Tulips have tick and a steady call — which you broken through the ground in our may adjust to loud or soft. This hand- flower garden. Temperature at 7:30 some, dependable little fellow comes tonight is 34° above zero. Yesterday we heard a robin singing. in plain or luminous dial. T. E. Lewtn BIG BEN LOUD ALARM. World's best- Augusta, Maine clock. friendly, known alarm He has a Sirs:

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LETTERS No other "Are these nest eggs, Mom?" TO THE EDITORS CONTINUED laxative Sirs: gives

I have w;ilkeil my feet off searching for the house in which Alhcrl Ryder fiiwl. What is the address? you ALL these Beatrice Freedman EJmhurst, L.I., N.Y. • 91-03 50th Ave., Elmhurxt.—ED. advantages PICTURE OF THE WEEK

Sirs: After much experimentation and practice on that gymnastic skill (Pic- DELICIOUS ture of the Week, Like, Keh. 26) I pro- CHOCOLATE nounce it impossible to perform. James Sr: \\u \VtO$ New York, N.Y. TASTE

Sirs: You know the Picture of the Week? The man picked up coins in his mouth, GENTLE ACTION so they said he was drunk! I'm 12, Lin- da, my sister, is 13, mv sister Susan who is 10, and even Marian who is only 4 can do, and we're not drunk! Anvwav EASY TO how could the4 ycnr-old sneak out and TAKE

drink? I think the court is crazy! Joan IIovv IRD Stockhridge, Mass. SPECIAL Sirs:

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And no other laxative even comes close "No, Tommy. The nest egg you've to nie. But if all goes well, it will pro- to Ex-Lax in popularity. It's the best- rcul heurtl Duilily tulk ubotit isn't u for vide a retirement income you and liked and biggest-selling egg. That's only u iiumc IW the money laxative in all me which will help us be comfortable people save for emergencies." America . . . the favorite of young and in our later years." old. Ex-Lax is 12*, economy size i04. "May the head of the family break "Covers every thing, doesn't it? into this conversation? . . . Jane dear, But When Nature 'forgets'... can we afford it?" you know that nest egg idea is just remember what I was holding forth on yester- "Sure, we can afford Insured Income day." EX- it's LAX — smart life insurance planning, proof. No one else in Sigma Alpha Ep-

"Hut. weren't you talking ahout life designed for people like us." silon conld come near doing it. THE CHOCOLATED LAXATIVE insurance?" Ceorc.E E. Bn'CGESItUttf * * * Denison University "Yes, I was—and life insurance is a Granville, Ohio Don't Be FAT! Family men see the economy of The nest egg because it provides income Take R.D.X. Tablets before meals to Mutual Life's Insured Income — RIO CARNIVAL help you curb your appetite for unnceded for emergencies. But my main point foods. Between meals, R.D.X. Tablets help complete life insurance planning you stave off hunger that causes you to Sirs: was that Mutual Life's Insured In- overindulge in fattening snacks. Reducing becomes more that builds on whatever assets vou al- In "Life Goes lo the Rio Carnival" pleasant, a more enjoyable come planning does two jobs." way of eating, ready have, like Social Security and (Life, Feb. 26) the skyline behind Leo- If your doctor has told you to take off weight, ask him "What do you mean, firo johs?" nora Amar is not that of Co puna ban a about the wonderful pension rights. So have a talk with a new R.D.X. Tablets and Reducing Plan. but of the Castelo in Esplanada do R.D.X. Tablets contain no barmfuJ drugs. "Well, in the first place, Insured In- Mutual Life representative in vour downtown Rio. W hat appears in the Let The Scales Show You. You do want to lose come protects you and Tommy right area—soon. If you'd like to know distance is a breakwater which encir- vr^j^v v,ciich(, (jiin't your" Then cles Cuanabara Bay. buy a package of R.D.X. now, no matter what might happen who he is, simply drop us a line. JS^^fc Edwin J. Licutu umit ' and follow the R.D.X. Detroit, Mich. Wt^^\ Y Reducing Plan. You lose weight or money-back. | LEARN WHAT THE "Hav Expanded Social S«w«*y MEANS TO YOU! — • Lifk was wrong. —ED. SEND FOR FREE BOOKLET — containing specific, detailed information CONTINUED ON PACE you wiidi to know about Social Security and how it teams with your life Q insurance. If you are 45 or under, you will he particularly interested in this hooklct. Mail the coupon today. You'll also receive a handy Addrtu all •ditorial and odveriiung cwrr tpofld.Ac. mi UFB. 9 RoelafeUet Num. official envelope for keeping records needed lo collect benefits. New York 20. N\ Y.

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If you're ready when your toast is . . . fine. This new Sirs: Toaster will it General Electric Automatic pop up! You showed Miss Carnegie altering If you're not— set the control knob, and a special an inexpensive suit to improve its fit built-in device will keep your toast down until you ("Elements of the New Classic Suit,'* Life, Feb. 26). If the model had stood want it. sideways in Photograph 2, which shows the suit corrected, wrinkles in Photo-

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at this year's crop of new cars

You can't pick up one of the new 1951 cars and thump it, as you do a

melon, but there are a lot of things you can do in order to select the best value. Here we suggest a few points to compare, illustrated with new features of the new Plymouth. But for a careful shopper, this is only the beginning. We hope you'll compare all features, of all the low-priced cars, then add up the score and see which one gives you most for the money.

ALL CARS ride well on a level street. The place to compare the ride is on a rough stretch like this. In this year's new Plymouth, wc are introducing a new use of hydraulic principles to provide better roadability. New Onflow

COMPARE styling and how it affects your comfort and vision. One good place to check roominess is in a rear corner, where certain designs crowd your head and shoulders. The new Plymouth has achieved its new flow ing lines without sacrificing roominess anywhere. And all-around vision has been increased, with a wider rear window and narrower front corner posts.

ASK THE LADY of llie house to compare the upholstery. She knows quality lu re. START OUT and we are confident that you'll like the smooth, lively get-

And it is a good indication of over-all value. The new Plymouth welcomes this away of a Plymouth. At cruising speeds, too, when you need accelera- careful inspection, both as to quality of materials and details of workmanship. tion, you get quick, unfailing response from the high compression engine. And we believe you'll discover an excellence of color schemes that's unusual in We also think you'll like the Plymouth gearshift, not only for quietness the low-priced field, with upholstery, trim, and exteriors harmonizing perfectly. and case, but for positive action and a feeling that you have full control.

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shock absorbers, combined with balanced springing and other engineering worry about sudden dips in the road ahead. You know that your passengers factors, enable the new Plymouth to sail smoothly over even the roughest will not be bounced. Your car is easy to control under any and all conditions. roads. The result is a safer ride. You drive tension-free. You don't have to We call this important engineering advancement "Safety-Flow Ride."

GET IN FRONT and compare the controls for convenience. When you see START THE ENGINE, on a cold car if possible, and note the speed and the new Plymouth, we'd like you to try the new hand brake, which is very smoothness of the warm-up. We believe you'll find that Plymouth has a big ca») In pull and release. Also, turn on the windshield wipers. They'renow edge here. In addition to the manifold heat control and the automatic electric, which means more constant action than the vacuum type. We hope choke, we have an improved thermostatic control in the radiator. On even you'll like the Plymouth instrument panel, too. It's been completely restyled. the coldest day your Plymouth will be ready to go in a jiffy.

Your Plymouth dealer would like to tell you more. Here we have discussed — for the most part — only new features. Remember that Plymouth also offers you many advantages that were formerly, and still are, exclusive among the leading low- priced cars — such as Safety-Rim Wheels that protect in ease of a blowout. Safe-Guard Hvdraulic Brakes with two extra cylinders in the front wheels for more predictable control, and manv other advances. Make arrangements with your Plymouth dealer for a demonstration. Then compare what Plymouth offers with what is offered by any other car selling at anything like the same price.

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ASK WHAT'S NEW under the hood, and have the dealer explain engine features. In Plymouth you'll find, among oilier things, a new radiator pressure cap; it increases cooling capacity and also helps to keep the water or anti-freeze from boiling away. New by-pass thermostat system on all models provides quick warm-up with complete protection for the engine. Plymouth .IKE M l. LETS IHOM A MACHINE CI N. HKOI'S <>l SI'IT FLY OUT OF ARCHEKFISH'S MOITII TOWARD COCKROACH HELD I.N TWEEZERS

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22 THOROUGHLY SOAKED COCKROACH PALLS INTO ARCHERFISH'S MOUTH. AKCHER ABOVE NEVER MISSES. EVEN W ITH MOVING TARGET

into the bow l bcforchc'il touch it. In six months' his gill covers, he forces drops of water through time lie hazarded a few shots at bugs dangled the tube and out his mouth. His targets, usual- over the surface of the water, and shortly after ly insects, flop into the water when his ammu- that, whenever he got hungry, he was expecto- nition soaks their wings. Spitting fish have been rating accurately and often. known to hit prey from a distance of 12 feet, The archcrfish's spitting apparatus is quite and one naturalist, speaking of a Siamese friend simple (draw ing, riglil). Along the roof of his who built his veranda over water, says, "On two mouth is agroove. Whenever he wants to spit he occasions when my friend sat on his veranda places his tongue on the groove (arrow), there- smoking, his attention was attracted by well- by making a narrow tube. Then, hv squeezing directed shots which extinguished his cigaret."

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1. Start the day with MILK- HOW TO WIN "FRIENDS" BONE DOG BISCUIT How he loves it—how he nerds it! Nutritious MILK-BONE DOG BiscriT gives a dog the sport RFC director tells on White House cronies of a real bone — the chewiny exercise that helps keep teeth and gums firm and healthy. Washington, D.C. It came as a happy surprise lo Walter Lee Dun- ' It's ,;,,„ nlrutt d I \...buk< d ham three years ago when he heard that Washington was considering for purity and digestibility. him as a director of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Why milk-bone dog biscuit comes in three sizes to suit every dog. pick him? He had been president of a bank, but there were plenty of Feed it daily! Detroit businessmen more prominent than he. Besides, he was a Re- publican. Walter Dunham was gratified.

Last week a wiser, great deal sadder Walter Dunham sat before J. William Fulbright's Senate Banking Subcommittee and explained why he should never have left Detroit. He was 69 and his heart was so weak that he could not appear before an open session but the transcript of his testimony was released by the subcommittee. It unfolded as disturbing a tale of lucrative con- niving as has come out of Washington since the days of Harding. As soon as Dunham was nominated he moved right down to Washington. But he was still a little awed by it all, and he did not even go into the RFC building until the Senate had confirmed him. How- ever there were those who made him feel right at home. Donald Dawson, a White House aide, only laughed politely when Dunham mistakenly called him "Dickson" and took him out for lunch. The situation was delicately explained: although Dun- ham was a Republican, he would be expected to "work in harmony with the Democratic party." Dunham, as he ad- ." mitted sadly last week, did just that: "Indeed I did. . . Dunham was, as he admitted, "naive"; but as he also said, he was "not dumb." He was beginning to guess that being an RFC director was more complicated than being a Detroit banker. But he caught on. Immediately he had to choose whether to play along with then RFC Chairman Har- 2. Make the main meal MILK-BONE ley Hise or Dawson. He chose Dawson. And when Dawson suggested TINY-BITS that all important RFC personnel get "White House" (i.e., Dawson) What an easy way to give him dinner clearance, Dunham agreed. balanced to his individual nutritional needs! Just add soup or liquid and It was not long before you could walk into the Statler's Colony Room choice left-overs to milk-bone tiny- almost any Friday at lunchtime and see a happy little "social group" bits and your dog's diet can be as appe- around one of the round tables. RFC Director William Willett was tizingly varied as your own ! Economi- there; so was Dawson; and Merl Young, a pleasant, glib young fellow cal because it's concentrated nourish- who, rumors went, was "related to the President"; and so was Walter ment — you add the liquid to this basic food! milk-bone tiny-bits Dunham. Sometimes they were joined by two out-of-towners: Rex are sealed In lined containers. Get some today! Jacobs, a Detroit industrialist who popped up every now and then in RFC transactions; and James O. Windham, who worked for Jacobs. BAKED BY NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY The subcommittee quite understandably was interested last week in T MW S what was discussed at these lunches. Senator Fulbright asked, ". . . You SS "' {ffi5% "5 National Biscuit Co.. DeptL,32 „„ /5fOuarant**dby ""J A ^^'wA ,. . Milk-Bone did not talk about flowers or about yachts, did you?" AA s is^. Bakery SAMPLE S \fewlHeo»k«pi^ VV 446 E. 10th St., York 9, N. Y. fkf r: f^kM New Dunham. We might have. N<^»«. u»jg>^ : »f Send me free milk-bone products. Also Book- | Senator Fulbright. Did you have an interest in flowers? let: "How to Care for and Feed Your Dog." (Paste coupon on penny postcard if you wish.) Senator Douglas. And how bees pollinate flowers? | I MILK-BONE products contain nutri- Name ••— 1 Senator Fulbright. Do you know anything about flowers? cnti your dog needs: Vila mini A, Bi, | _ — 8 Addresa - Dunham. No. B*, D and E . . . Meat Meal . . . Fish | | Liver and State ™™™7";™'-" Oil . . . Whole Wheat Flour . . . 7 Z ^ on'v Thta iron* «» Unxtrd SttUa I If Dunham was still too naive to realize that in Washington even ... . . ef*r Minerals . . Milk. . 1^ ™ m «^ «m « ™ ™ m aJ CONTINUED ON NCXT PAGE

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friendly luncheon gatherings are business conferences, he was not long in being disabused of the no- Rain or Shine... tion. Soon he was hearing from one ofhis new friends, Bill Boyle, Democratic National Commit- tee chairman. Bill had somegood people looking for jobs— in case OnlyAnsco Guarantees directorships became vacant on any boards of companies borrowing from RFC. Then came calls from Boyle's assistant; so- and-so wanted a loan. Dunham Perfect Snapshots saw that he got "serious and ex- peditious attention." Only once did President Truman's name Yes, you call them perfect OR YOU GET A NEW ROLL, FREE. get mentioned by the people who started swarming around look-

Indoors or out.. . in . . any weather. in any camera! ing for loans: John Steelman called one day, saying that "the Don't trust to luck with ordinary film. Now get clear, sparkling President had requested him to a loan to snapshots in all weather, in any camera ... at no extra cost. find out about a company that planned to build a Ansco All-Weather Film gives the results you want or return garage under Boston Common. negatives and carton or (The loan was approved.) But guarantee bond for new, Dunham found that there was a fantastic array of cronies in and free roll. Only Ansco The ALL- around the White House who makes this guarantee. ~ WEATHER were very interested in all those At dealers everywhere! RFC millions, especially for de- FILM serving Democrats. And their "entree" to the White House,

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slill awed him. It began to occur to him thai the system could work both ways, too. Once he had lunch with Dawson to try to get a government job for his

Detroit lawyer (in vain) ; on another occasion he called Dawson to get some matchbooks labeled SWIPED FROM HARRY S. TRU- MAN. The most striking example came when Dunham discovered that a thorough cleaning out of the Lustron prefabricated house company was needed to get back some of the RFC's $37,- 500,000 loan. Lustron's president Carl Strandlund pointed- ly informed Dunham that any

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lo try to hand over Lustron to Ja- cobs — with RFC help, of course. RELIEVES This, said Dunham, was finally too much for him. "As I look HEADACHE Smooth back," he testified, "I feel that Shave ? my changed feeling wa9 reflected NEURALGIA in my attitude towards Messrs. Jacobs, Young et al." NEURITIS PAIN

But it was too late now. Sen- ator Fulbright's subcommittee charged favoritism on the part Smooth You of the directors. The directors and the White House coterie sat fASJ tight. But Truman damned the Fulbrighl report as "asinine." The bubbling pot thereupon boiled over. Dunham left his formal resignation with his secretary, Mrs. Florence Smoot and retired to Florida to get out of Here's Why. the line of fire. ~* Anacin® ii like a doctor'i

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THE EDITORS OF LIFE PROUDLY ANNOUNCE

"The War America Fought"

THE PERSONAL STORY OF GENERAL OF THE ARMY OMAR N. BRADLEY

ILLUSTRATED BY BILL MAULDIN

BEGINNING IN THE ISSUE OF APRIL 9

From Dec. 7, 1941 until Aug. 15, 1945 the U.S. fought and endlessly fascinating report by a man who not — and, with the aid of its Allies, won — the most ter- only saw everything but possessed the sensitivity to rible war in history. The war was fought in many interpret what he saw and the courage to state his theaters and under many leaders, but the greatest judgments forthrightly. clashes of land forces occurred in Europe. The com- To illustrate the story of "the GIs' general," Life mander of these U.S. armies in the field was a mild- has commissioned the GIs' own satirist, Bill Mauldin.

appearing, soft-spoken, intensely human Missourian It is a happy collaboration. Mauldin admires Brad- named Omar Nelson Bradley. An unknown lieuten- ley and shares most of his opinions of "other brass." ant colonel in 1941, Omar Bradley rose to the rank of His drawings have the same alert fidelity, the same full general in the crucible of combat. He enjoyed the uncompromising honesty and the same grim humor complete confidence of the Allied Supreme Com- as his wartime depictions of Willie and Joe.

mander, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and he won the ad- It is safe to say that no future biographer of World miration and the affection of the men who fought War II personalities will be able to operate without under him. They called him "the GIs' general." reference to the Bradley memoirs. From the general's Now General of the Army Omar N. Bradley, chair- pages emerge sharply etched portraits of Winston man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has written his own Churchill, rough-and-ready General Patton, tidy account of The War America Fought. In four instal- Field Marshal Montgomery of Alamein, General

ments, beginning April 9, Life is privileged to present Eisenhower, General Marshall, Ceneral Terry Allen one of the frankest memoirs of modern times. From and a host of others. Life readers will become ac- the moment he arrived overseas to be General Eisen- quainted, as never before, with these men who have hower's "eyes and ears" in the battle for North Africa, led them and the men who lead them today. Never to the final victory of the Allied forces in the ruins of malicious, never vindictive, General Bradley none- the Reich, Omar Bradley was busy observing, assess- theless reports the bad with the good in a series of ing and appraising. Four years ago, while adminis- well-considered judgments. And, in a characteristi- tering veterans' affairs and while the events were still cally modest way, he provides an illuminating self- fresh in his mind, he dictated the material which later portrait of the man who, in 1951, holds one of the

served as the basis for the story. The result is a vivid most important military positions in the free world. Vol. 30 No. 12 LIFE Much 19, 1951

RIDERS TO SA* FRANCISCO

IN KOREA, HALE (RIGHT) LUGS HIS RIFLE PAST A RED CORPSE. IN SAN FRANCISCO HE CARRIES HIS VALISE ON WAY TO HIS FIRST LIBERTY IN SEVEN MONTHS

E E FROM THE FRONT PHOTOGRAPHED FOR LIFE BY WAYNE MILLER

One burning September day in Korea, during from his wounds. But at the Changjin Reser- officials who stood near a World War II sign of the fighting along the Naktong River, Cpl. Rob- voir, where his nose ran from the cold, the mus- welcome painted on the dock shed, the motor- ert R. Hale, of B Company, 5th Marine Regi- tache he had cherished all through Korea had cade through the city streets. Only a few of them ment, led his men up the razorbacks and over frozen. So when it thawed he had shaved it off. waved at the girls from the cars, and even on the bodies of North Koreans that lay in the brit- Like Sergeant Hale, many Marines aboard liberty that night, prowling through the night- tle field grass. Later that day, after Life Pho- the transport were back because they had been spots, they were on their reserved behavior. It tographer David Duncan had taken his picture wounded twice. But 690 of them were the first was only during those first precious moments

(upper left), Hale was shot in the hand. Then, troops to return under the new Marine rotation at the foot of the gangplank on the dock that in the attack on Seoul, he was hit again by a bul- plan which will bring veterans of Korea home the emotions of the returning Marines came to let and a searing fragment. Last week, on a gray for leaves and then assign most of them to train- the surface. Met by friends and relatives, they Naval transport, Hale came into San Francisco ing cadres. The Marines were neither bored nor dropped their seabags and were suddenly swept harbor along with 1,166 other Marines from excited by the welcoming ceremonies arranged up in the wonderful feelingof relief and utter joy Korea. He was a sergeant now and recovered for them—the Marine band, the speeches from at being home and in the arms of their people.

Copyr SGT. OKEY DOUQLAS, leader ofan antitank section, was photogra phdl hi Korea by Hank V alkcr as he observed (lie activities of enemy tanks across the

CPL. THOMAS HALL mat photographed during on ammunition boxes. In San Francisco at a night- MOTHER OF A DEAD MARINE, Mrs. Bertha first action of Marines in Korea standing in a ma- club. Hall, now a sergeant, stands at the liar, talking Leneve, sadly walks down gangplank f rom ship after china pun emplacement near Chindoag with his fool [nun impromptu eoni|ianion. with his font on the rail. she had searched long and in vain among returning

:<6 Marines for friends of her son who might give her FATH ER OF A NEW BABY, 1st Lieut. Francis first he was speechless, only staring at hi* child and the details of his death in Korea. A 21-year-old Pfc, Donohoe, who already has three sons, sees Ins six- cradling her in hi-* arms. Then he began to murmur Edward LeneVB was killed near Changjin Reservoir. month-old daughter Mary Ellen for the first time. At to himself over and over again, "She's wonderful."

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 37 Marines' Return CONTINUED

AS IN EVERY WAR IN EVERY AGE, A FIGHTER COMES BACK TO HIS GIRL

STILL SHE DOES NOT SEE HIM. SHE GROWS MORE ANXIOUS, BEGINS TO SNIFFLE. THEN. AS HE WALKS DOWN THE GANGPLANK, SHE SUDDENLY SPIES HIM

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Everybody knows the joke about the fellow had come, he was told, when the armed forces SKIRL OR BE SKIRLED who is looking the other way w hen the finger could no longer count on a blank check and is put on him. He looks up wide-eyed and that he would now have to account for "ev- This is fair warning to all parents. U.S. toy says, "Who, me?" As the gag presently ap- ery nail and every rivethead to the Ameri- counters are about to be invaded by a device plies to our own pocketbooks — with shrink- can taxpayer." more devilish lhan the thumbscrew, more dev- ing dollars and rising prices— it is open to Item: Congress properly and readily vot- astating than the gamma ray. It's a plastic mod- endless variations, none of them very funny. ed S42 billion for defense but has insisted on el of the bagpipe. If you've been lucky enough On Dec. 16 Mr. Truman proclaimed a taking its own sweet time in considering the never to have heard this so-called musical in- state of national emergency. By Webster's taxes necessary to raise those billions. This strument, just draw your thumbnail across a definition an emergency is "an unforeseen means that all of us get a six months' breath- blackboard. That will give you a fair idea of combination of circumstances which calls er on taxes, but we pay for it in still more what to expect. You want a complete mental for immediate action." But that was in De- inflation. breakdown? Buy Junior a bagpipe. cember. Now it is March and things are go-

Nero is said to have played one. He could ing better in Korea, spring is almost here, No place for privilege have been skirling when he was supposed to and who wants to worry about an emergen- be fiddling. In any case look what happened cy? In Washington the heat is off. Almost Item: Congress last year wrote a price con- to Rome— and take heed. Even its warmest three weeks ago the heads of our labor unions trol bill in response to pressure from home friends admit that the bagpipe has never been petulantly walked out on our mobilization to "do something." It yielded to still more housebroken. No town, one observer says, is agencies and they are still out. When he was pressure from the farm bloc and guaranteed big enough to hold both its reputable citizens asked if this was serious the President said no. the farmers special privileges. As a result no and a bagpipe. What gives here anyway? Is bad news our ceilings can be placed on food prices until The genuine article still costs $150 and up, only spur to action? Would we react faster if they reach parity. Since parity goes up with safely beyond the reach of most adults or tots. there were more casualties in Korea? We every twist of the spiral, inflation is built But now we're to have thousands of them. An hope not. But whatever the merit of their right into the law. Now the cotton bloc, with enterprising mouth-organ maker is turning out case, the unions would not have walked out the price of raw cotton fixed at 25% above a genuine facsimile for $5.95. What's worse, he on their defense jobs if they were convinced parity, wants all ceilings on raw cotton lifted. guarantees that anyone can learn to play it in that a true emergency did exist. Consider, too, the attitude of business and ten minutes. And don't kid yourself that a bag- labor. pipe can be isolated like a germ. Let one into No reason to relax When prices were frozen they had already your house, and soon you'll be surrounded by reached their all-time peak. So had profits. a battalion of pipers. So look to your noise- The emergency does exist, it is as real to- The so-called freeze was immediately fol- abatement laws. Organize vigilantes if you day as on the day that the President pro- lowed by a sudden rush of businessmen to must. But don't say we didn't warn you. claimed it, and it will be real for a long time Washington claiming exception after excep- to come. W hen it comes to facing our prob- tion. Now the price freeze has given way to lems on the home front— not abroad but a general thaw— and the price level is rising here in the U.S. — what we are losing is a per- again. When wages were frozen, labor turned CALLING ALL HERMITS! sonal sense of urgency. And in losing it, every on the heat and the wage freeze melted as Refugees by the thousands have been pouring one of us, from the Administration on down, fast if not faster than prices. This business into Western Europe from the Soviet Union is all loo ready to shrug off our unpleasant reached its height of absurdity last week and the satellite countries. Yet most of these responsibilities here at home with that ir- when a w hole new group of wages was given potential allies are barred by law from ever responsible question "Who, me?" a free ride under an escalator clause and soap entering the U.S. Under the sweeping terms Item: Since the emergency was declared, prices were rolled back one cent. of the McCarran Internal Security Act, the the President has not retreated one inch long-standing immigration ban against Com- from a political budget that includes all No time for a Iree ride munist party members has been broadened im- kinds of doubtful proposals for free and easy measurably. Thus anyone who has ever served spending with or without the excuse that it All of this sounds bad. But there is nothing in the armed forces of a Communist-dominat- is in the interests of national defense. wrong that a greater sense of urgency and ed nation or has belonged to a slate-dominated Item: The Administration, disregarding personal responsibility will not cure. remember that organization is automatically excluded. Only the advice and counsel of the country's best The cure begins when we refugees who were hermits or draft dodgers economists, has steadily increased the mon- the emergency still exists. The President could hope to qualify for entry into the U.S. ey supply and credit at a time when amount would help it along if instead of preaching This just doesn't make sense. Among those of goods has been decreasing. As a result, sacrifice he would make some minor politi- politi- who have (led the Iron Curtain tyranny are there has been a scramble for scarce com- cal sacrifices by trimming his own many professional people. They may never modities and prices have been bid up and up. cal budget. The Secretary of the Treasury have been members of the Communist party. But, as always, the Administration is an could do his part by agreeing that savings But as members of medical societies, trade un- easy target — too easy when it comes to shift- should be made more attractive and borrow- ions, bar associations or what have you, they ing responsibility. Consider now the role of ing more difficult. Congress could put some inevitably came under state domination. By Congress. steam behind that tax bill. Its members will erecting an unrealistic standard for political At times the mood of Congress changes find it easier to vote for higher taxes if they purity, we are defeating our own purposes. In- almost as rapidly as the legendary weather say no a little more firmly to special privi- telligence officers have already testified to the of Washington. In December when the flap lege, whether those claiming privilege be immense value of having these people on our was on, a general was called on the carpet from the farm or the factory. that side. We want to encourage others to follow before one congressional committee and Businessmen must accept the fact them. To invite them, then to shut the door in asked why his branch of the service wasn't you can't have rising profits and fixed wages. that can't their faces, is the height of stupidity. Congress ready then and there. When the general pa- The unions must understand they should revamp the McCarran Act. tiently explained about appropriations he have real price control with wages on an es- was told to get on with the job—and damn calator. the expense. The general did go ahead and And all of us would do well to reflect that last week he found himself on the same car- the "Who, me?" gag is a very bad joke in pet before the same committee. The time a national emergency.

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Just how badly beaten Our Town was in a quarter-mile sprint at New Orleans' Fair Grounds track never did get into the racing form charts, but the ofhcial camera at the finish line showed it (above). Apparently 11th in a field of 12 horses, Our Town actually was beaked out of even 11th place when a stray race track pigeon closed fast to get over the line by a feather.

"LA PRENSA'S" EDITOR, SHOWN IN HIS OFFICE ON DAY OF THE RIOTING, NOW FACES PROSECUTION

"LIFE" »$ IN OF "LA PUT

Here are two pictures Peron's police thought they had suppressed

When Argentine Dictator Juan Peron's federal tarian regime, had been shut down 32 days hy police arrested Life's Photographer Leonard the Peronistas, when 1,300 employes assembled McCombe and Correspondent Frank Shea, on Feb. 26 in the balconied patio of the newspa-

covering the Peron-inspired riot against the per's editorial building (left). There they voted newspaper La Prensa, they confiscated four unanimously to return to work the following rolls of film taken by McCombe. Life reported day, with or without police protection. Next the story in its last issue (March 12) without day, in small groups, they bravely marched to any of McCombc's photographs. Since then the printing plant. There, set upon by Pcronista some of McCombe's film has mysteriously thugs, one of them was killed and 14 hurt. turned up in the U.S. from Buenos Aires. On it Last week La Prensa, one of the world's fin- were these pictures of the employes of La Prensa est independent newspapers, was farther than and the paper's distinguished editor and pub- ever from reopening. Its plant was padlocked; lisher, Dr. Alberto Cainza Paz (above), shown Peron's stooge unions decreed a total boycott in the critical hour of their testing. Life pub- of the paper which probably spelled its death lishes these pictures as a salute to their courage sentence, and Dr. Gainza Paz, great-nephew in fighting the battle for a free press. of the founder, was under a trumped-up charge La Prensa, refusing to bow' to Peron's totali- of carrying on "activities against the slate."

•LA PRENSA" EMPLOYES PLEDGE SUPPORT TO THEIR EDITOR AT MASS MEETING 43 TRUMAN BEACH IS USUALLY FOR NAVY PERSONNEL. HE SUNS ON LEDGE

KEY WEST'S TOP TOURIST HE WALKS WITH PRESS SECRETARY SHORT

Truman sets fast pace in walks and sport shirts TWO SECRET SERVICE MEN FOLLOW THEM

It was in November 1946, after the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt had unexpectedly burdened him with the pres- idency, that Harry Truman first fled to Key West, Fla. for a rest — and it was love at first sight. Harry Truman loved Key West, most southerly of all U.S. cities, for its wonderfully benign climate, its homely, lazy charm and for the way its citizens accepted his presence without fan- fare. Key West, a hopeful resort, loved Harry Truman for pulling its name on (he front pages of the world's news-

papers and named a street after him (left). He had made eight visits to Key West and spent a total of about five months there when, this month, he went back once more. The President, who had been overweight, pale, and short-tempered in Washington, began grinning as he drove from the airport to the naval base on which is located the "Little White House" and Truman Beach. There he could not wait to shuck o(T business clothes and put on a typical vacationer's cheerful attire and expression. After that he was up by 6:30 mornings, to work a while, then to take his usual 120- paces-per-minute walk. Breakfast, more work and about two hours at the beach with half an hour of swimming, 90 minutes of sun. Then lunch, a nap, more work, dinner, poker or record-listening, and so to bed. By last week Harry Truman, rosy from the sun and lighter by three pounds, looked relaxed enough to shake hands with a music critic. HE CRINS AT GREETINGS, "HI, UNCLE HARRY-

PACE WAS STILL BRISK ON HIS RETURN "LITTLE WHITE HOUSE" WAS ONCE THE QUARTERS OF THE NAVAL BASE'S COMMANDER

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GROCER Ethel Bacr sells Truman SHOPKEEPER Byrnina Thomp- party groceries, mineral water. Key son says that her business had gone up West's new prosperity has enabled her 200% even before she got in these new to make improvements in her store. pinafores made in Independence, Mo.

i 'J. A HOTEL MANAGER McANDREWS STANDS ON TERRACE OVER DUVAL STREET

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island, area, at Key West is a coral some 6 square miles in the very end of AERIAL VIEW of Key West here looks east. The Island*! winter temperature

he little arc of keys (islands) that curl southwest from Florida's tip. By ranges from 73? to 78°, the all-time record low is 41°. It has never had a frost. turns it has been an English and Spanish possession, a pirate's haven, a ship-salvage headquarters (some of whose entrepreneurs increased business by luring ships onto reefs), a Northern outpost during the Civil War. the world's largest cigar-making center in the 1870s, and a great rum- TRADING running center in the 1920s. But in the '30s an enormous complex of dif- POST ficulties gave Key West an unwelcome distinction: it became the brokest GIFTS city in the state, with no money in its treasury and a record 80% of its citizens on relief. Then began a municipal Horatio Alger story. Having nothing else, the Conchs, as native residents are called, contributed two million hours of their labor to clean the city's streets, reopen its hotels, develop beaches and devise fetes to attract tourists. In 1938 the : 1 Overseas Highway, 156 miles of bridge and roadway linking the keys and the mainland, was completed (the connecting railroad had been wrecked i by the 1935 hurricane), and in 1942 a 130-mile long. 18-inch main was constructed to bring Key West fresh water from the mainland (it had here- / tofore depended on cisterns) . All these were stimulating shots in the arm, but the biggest shot of all proved to be Harry Truman. Since he first came the number of tourists visiting Key West has increased by 100,000 each year; next year the total is expected to reach Mi million, and there is talk of filling in the salt ponds (aerial photo, above, right) to create a site for new resort hotels. Its permanent population of 22,000 is similarly grow ing, many of them northerners who buy old Conch houses in the less desirable parts of town, move them to better locations {opposite page). Hotel Manager James McAndrews (above) finds business this year up 175% from last year. The merchants along Duval Street, Key BOAT B U I L D E R Warren Lowe by GIFT DEALER Opal Van Deursen West's main thoroughfare (above) are prospering and the development of day builds shrimp trawlers, by night also deals in real estate, is currently shrimp fishing recently added S5 million a year to its income. With Harry plays trumpet in nightclub, has been negotiating to put up a 10-story resort Truman as happy as ever with it, Key West's future looks doubly sunny. offered $5,000 for boat by shrimp men. hotel in Key West's Salt Pond area.

OLD CONCH HOUSE IS MOVED FOUR BLOCKS THROUGH STREETS TO NEW SITE—ft> 46

In Madrid on the morning of March 1 the new Moorish guards and 111 horses, to present his U.S. ambassador, Stanlon Criffis, climbed into credentials to Franco. Then, having restored a glittering coach beside Spain's chief of proto- full relations with the dictator ("a charming E col and drove off, in a procession containing 99 gentleman"), he drove happily home (above).

In Washington one night last week the senior a truck, was pinned in his car for 20 minutes U.S. senator from Kentucky, Virgil Chapman, (above) before rescuers could remove him, died worked late on a speech urging the draft at 18. a few hours later. The Senate adjourned that Driving home at 3:30 a.m., he collided with day after eulogies, voted the draft a day later.

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Rosemary Williamson is quite a doll. She has long black hair, dark brown eyes and a face and body which adorned the Broadway slage and the covers of magazines (next page). It is hardly her fault that men keep trying to give her presents — usually with strings attached. But one day last spring, w hen she w as starting a job in Peep Show (right and belotv), Rosemary met a man w ho was different. He was Sid Levy, who said he was a wealthy textile executive, and he wanted to give Rosemary presents without any strings at all. He took her to the Latin Quarter and the Copa. He gave her a $1,000 w rist watch. Then he gave her a $2,500 mink coat and some stone martens. Then he gave her a diamond ring ($5,200) and a $5,800 Cadillac. And he asked for nothing in return. Then Rosemary started getting a little sick of Sid. Her coat was stolen, and she hocked the diamond ring and sold the car. Finally the D.A.'s office picked up Sid, charging that he had collected $40,000 on a phony promise to invest in nylon and had splurged most

of it on Rosemary. Told she would have to give the presents back, Rose- mary took the news calmly. Anyway, she said, Sidney was just a "creep."

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Back in the days when they were closer friends, Sid once confided TRAMPLING ON GRAPES, Rose- to Rosemary that he had a psychological urge to get rid of money. mary poses for a publicity picture to "He was, I guess," she says, "sort of psychopathic about the w hole celebrate 1949 National Wine Week. thing. He didn't want to buy me— all he wanted was the glamour attached to going with an actress." And as these pictures from her scraphook show, Rosemary has plenty of glamour. She decorated the stage in both Peep Show and Ax the Cirl.t Go, graced the air w aves in both radio and television, and her picture has been seen by tens of millions of Americans on magazine covers (above), in ads, publicity pictures and fashion photographs. On top of all this she has

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LOUNGING ON SWANS, rightside up ant) upside down, a pair of Rosemarys appears in this glamour shot which ran as an advertisement for Blue Swan lingerie.

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Tin- State librarians house of the nearby stale reform school for hoys in Lansing, Mich, last and slacked them on the bleachers. In lite libra-

week were slill busy ry, air conditioners were installed to dry the re- at one of the greatest sidual humidity from the three floors of shelves. thawing ami drying- But four weeks after the blaze mildewed books out jobs in the history were still turning up at the rate of 200 a day. of library work. Must \\ bile all this went on, and 1,300 state em- of the 500,000 books ployes were temporarily exiled lo makeshift and periodicals at the offices in Quonset huts, an old Y^ICA and an

State Library had been abandoned bus station, 19-year-old Richard V.. draft-dodger shay soaked or splattered Shay, Slate Highway Department clerk, plead- and then frozen dur- ed guilty lo selling the blaze. He explained lhat ing a successful attempt to save them from be- he had hoped lo avoid the draft by starting jusl ing burned in a §5 million Slate Office Building "a little fire," later confessing to it and thus fire early in February. About 25.000 were wa- becoming "undesirable" for military service. terlogged beyond saving. Another 30,000 were Ironically, Shay's draft board later revealed badly damaged but salvageable. To dry ihem he would have been exempted anyway because ICE-SHEATHED BUILDING out library workers carted them to the Geld he has a wife anil an c'i-tnoulh-old daughter. burned two days despite million gallon- nl water poured on blaze.

WATERLOGGED BOOKS WERE DRIED OUT ON BLEACHERS OF NEARBY FIELD HOUSE, WHERE HOT-AIR BLOWERS. ALREADY INSTALLED, SPEEDED THE SALVAGE ! !

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Last month in the English resort of Torquay, 275 judges sat down to a giddy task: picking the hest original cocktail of 250 entries in the cocktail competition of the United Kingdom Bartenders Cuild. It took three CHAMPION COCKTAILS days of tests (above) hefore the intrepid judges sipped a winner (p. 68).

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outdoor section which is separated from indoors hy plate-glass walls and is framed

on outside by Quonset ribs (in red). At left: bedroom wing is shown with roof off.

THE ROUND HOUSE

Steel, glass, marbles, copper, rope and coal make a $64,000 Quonset-hut mansion

PHOTOGRAPHED FOR LIFE BY ELIOT ELISOFON

Architect Bruce Goff, one of the few U.S. architects whom and walls. There are no windows, so ventilation is provided Frank Lloyd Wright considers creative, scorns houses that by hinged louvres and ceiling vents. Chief hazards of the are "boxes with little holes." But he likes circles, believ- main living space are the glass walls (diagram, above), which ing that a circle is "an informal, gathcring-around, friend- carry out Goff s theory of "space moving inside and out." ly form." Working on this theory, he designed a house for To keep guests from trying to follow suit Mrs. Ford is grow- the Albert Fords of Aurora, 111. which makes most modern ing succulent plants in ditches outside the glass walls. houses look quaint. The house, which cost $64,000, delights its owners. Mr. The house consists ofa huge, domed center circle, 166 feet Ford, who is a gas-company executive, likes the doorless

around, and two semicircular bedroom wings, all shaped carport ("No trouble now to put the car away") ; Mrs. Ruth

by steel arches made of standard Quonset ribs. At the base of Van Sickle Ford, who is the director of the Chicago Acad- the center sphere, which is built on three levels, is a curved emy of Fine Arts, is pleased to have a balcony studio where cannel coal wall, treated against smudging and weathering. she can paint, a gallery where she can hang pictures and For sparkle, this wall is studded with ordinary playing mar- plenty of room where she can entertain — all in a house that bles and with numerous 100-pound clusters of bright glass requires little care. Friends and curious passers-by are often cullets, a hardened waste product periodically cleaned from less delighted. W hile building was in progress so many peo- glass furnaces. ple came to gape at what they variously called the "big Navy surplus rope covers the horizontal ceilings. Cypress apple," "birdcage," "dome" or "hangar" that the Fords siding, laid in a herringbone pattern, lines part of the domes posted a sign reading, "We don't like your house either."

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Built on acres, the house is onlylOO feet from the nearest neighbor (j'arright). The open side of the house faces away from a crossroad toward back of the plot.

THE THREE LEVELS of main room consist of a gallery enclosed by a curved cannel coal wall 75 feet long, Mrs. Ford's fishnet-hung balcony-studio and a circular central pit. Seated in the dining area of the sunken pit is Mrs. Ford's daughter.

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THE BATHROOM SKYLIGHT is a bomber-type Plexiglas blister. This allows natural light to enter bathroom, which in each wing is an interior, windowless room.

GLASS CULLFJS go through the cannel coal wall, sparkle brightly on the inside when the sun strikes their outer surface.

FROM HER BED Mrs. Ford can see the stars through a peaked skylight. Skylight is uncurtained since she is an early riser, likes to have morning light wake her.

TERRACE cuti EntO main room like wedge of pie. All levels—gallery, balcony and pit —extend in Co terrace section. Fireplace twn-faeed, one nide opening u> nut- doors, the other into dining area. Eventually the whole terrace will U* screened.

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FLOOD OF LIGHT comes in through glass walls and skylight, burnishing the copper cone. Overhead the Quonset steel ribs arch toward the dome, joining the interior ribs in a pattern that looks like inside of an umbrella. By day the dome lets in sunlight; by

night it acts as a reflector for room's indirect light- ing. Here, in the kitchen behind the dining counter, Mrs. Ford washes the Sunday breakfast dishes. Most of the furniture, including squat hassocks, was designed by Archi- tect GofT. Mrs. Ford chose the warm color scheme.

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A NEW STAR FROM ITALY

The downcast eyes and sedate pose in this picture only partly conceal the impish vitality of Italy's newest movie export. Her name is Pier (pronounced Peer) Angeli, she is 18 years old and her specialty on the screen is bringing poignance and charm to the awkward time of life between adolescence and maturity. She had made only one film in Italy, and learned only a few words of English, when she made her bid for Hollywood stardom. A screen test was shipped to Director Fred Zinnemann in the U.S., and when he arrived in Italy to start making Teresa for M-G-M he promptly put her in the title part. It was a hard role: Tere- sa is a cheerful adolescent who has to face a woman's heavy problems with no one to help her. She leaves her war-torn family in Italy to marry a GI, thinking that he is a hero, but she discovers when she comes to America that he is a poor, shiftless, mother-bedeviled weakling. Pier's special mixture of sweetness and strength makes the part tremen- dously appealing, and holds together almost singlehand- edly a movie which is apt to get pretty dull when the camera leaves her to go chasing after her worthless husband. PIER ANGELI CONTINUED ROMANCE IN ITALY

GI SUITOR for Teresa's hand is a tall young soldier (John Ericson) who meets her beside the town pump, helps her to carry the pail of water back to her home.

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COURTSHIP is carried on inTeresa's house, where the soldier is billeted and where he returns after being treated in hospital for bad case of battle fatigue.

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A REJECTKD CI, here tu rn ing to new girl after re- buff by Teresa, is played by Cartoonist Bill Maul- din, who was technical con- sultant, became an actor.

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TERESA'S EYES betray disappointment when her husband lakes her to New York home, a dilapidated tenement where he lives under his mother's thumb.

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U.S. PRICE BOSS LEARNS HOW TO BE EXPENDABLE AND LIKE IT by Ernest Havemann

THE two price bosses everybody remembers from World War 200 pounds can be very dignified, and Di Salle, besides having these II were Leon Henderson, a burly little fire-eater, and Chester dimensions, happens to have them distributed in the most disrepu- Bowles, a tall and lanky charmer from the advertising business. table manner possible. His belly, which is the great bulk of him, starts Henderson was a terrible-tempered Mr. Bang who yipped, yapped, modestly enough below the breastbone, maintains some self-control scolded and bullied. Bowles was a honeydripper who seldom raised down to the bellline and then goes hog-wild in the region covered by

his voice. Yet what everybody remembers best is that both of them, the trousers. There is no propping it up into the kind of sweeping in their disparate ways, were men of iron will. They knew best: in fact facade maintained by the imposing type of fat man like Lauritz Mel- at times they seemed to know everything; and anybody who dared chior or Tom Connally. It sags instead like a dying balloon, making disagree with them was sure to get a terrible cussing or a polite but him look as if he were wearing somebody else's pants and carrying pointed summons to a hearing. This is why the nation was totally the week's washing down the front of them. unprepared for and is still baflled by the new 1951-model price boss, Di Salle likes to wear brown suits about three shades too light to a mild, friendly and completely unpretentious lawyer named Michael be stylish. He has them pressed occasionally, of course, but nobody

Vincent Di Salle. would ever know it, for as soon as he sits down the first lime the There is nothing of the man on horseback about Di Salle; indeed it wrinkles pop out in great horizontal waves from his vest top to his is obvious from looking at him that his feet would never reach the knees. He also likes to wear bright ties and tan shoes in need of a stirrups. No man who stands a mere 5 feet 5 and weighs upward of shine, and be does not like to wear garters. What with his figure and

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his disregard for the fashion ads there is nothing ahout his appearance to suggest fame, greatness or high office — and people who run 1951 CROSLEY TV into him in public places often do double-takes, recognizing the face from the newspapers but unable to reconcile it with the general

impression. Di Salle does not mind at all; indeed he likes it that way. He feels best in shirtsleeves, preferably at a table loaded with tmlipiisto and spaghetti, and never tries to pretend otherwise. I n-

lil he left Toledo to become price boss his home was constantly overrun by kids, not only his own five but also dozens from the neighborhood, all of w hom gaily called him Mike and his wife Mom. He did manage in Toledo to get used to being called councilman in public, and finally mayor, but he will probably never cease being startled at hearing himself called Mr. Di Salle, w hich is of course

w hat most people say now. "Every time I hear it," he has confessed, "I automatically look around to see if my father walked in the room." Unlike his predecessors in World War II, Di Salle does not claim to know much of anything. "When I took this job," he freely ad- mits, "all I knew about prices was that my wife said they were too high." He finds it amusing that his only connection with the old

OPA was to represent several businessmen against it, and that w hen he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 1946 he came out strongly against price controls in peacetime. When people ask him how he likes the job he usually replies that he likes it fine, despite the pres-

sure, and often adds, "Maybe I just don't know enough about it to be runf used. It helps to be a little stupid." Recently, while chatting w ith a group of people on a train, he pulled at his vest, which came away more than an inch from his massive waistline. "Look

at that," he said. "When I went to Washington Time magazine called me yam-shaped. A couple of more months and they'll have to think up another adjective. In fact between the weight I'm

losing and the education I'm getting on this job, I should be paying the government." Di Salle is always chatting anyway ("I'm a very gregarious fellow," he explains) with a speed, frankness and wisecracking infor- mality that come as a constant surprise from a Washington official. His ow n public relations section in the Office of Price Stabilization considers him hopelessly indiscreet. He is constantly popping off to lone newspapermen he meets in the corridors, or dropping into the press room for an unscheduled and unehaperoned conference, and the men who are supposed to handle his press relations and public statements can never keep up with him.

The Irene Castle of price control

is quite possible that one of these days Di Salic will accom- r*plish metaphorically something that would be absolutely impos- 20-INCH Console Model 20-CDC-3. Beautifully styled cabinet fin- sible physically — to wit. that he will put his foot in his mouth ished in lustrous blond wood. Also available in rich mahogany veneer. and will disappear from Washington as abruptly as he arrived. The danger has apparently occurred to him; not long ago, asked if he planned to move his home and family to Washington, he re- You'll be proud to live with the superb S. Reliable operation—with Crosley's great plied, "Mot I just want to be here with two suitcases." beauty of your 1951 Crosley Television Super-Powered Chassis. me. down In fact he already has got in trouble with one superior, former set. And because every Crosley Receiver 3. Round-the-compa« reception — with Economic Stabilizer Alan Valentine, of whom he was more or less is beautifully built inside as well as out- Crosley's patented Built-in Dual openly critical. In that case the Administration proved to be fonder side, you can look forward to years and Antenna. of the amiable Di Salle than of the cantankerous Dr. Valentine, years of full television enjoyment. 4. Precise program selection —with Cros- and Valentine wound up the casualty but a beginner in Wash- Twenty magnificent new Crosley models ley's Super-Sensitive Unituner. — press his luck so far. Salle off give you everything you want in tele- ington can only Recently Di popped a 5. Lifelike picture clarity —with Crosley's with a more general type of remark that he probably would have vision set, including a selection of cab- Precision Picture Control. wiser censor. announcing ceilings on the profit inets in rich mahogany or walnut veneer, been to When mar- 6. Sustained picture quality with Cros- — gins of retailers, to replace his earlier "general freeze," he said he or lustrous blond wood. ley's Automatic Gain Control. felt the effect would be to roll back prices than would be And dependable performance—clear, more 7. Steady pictures—with Crosley's Auto- steady big pictures on Crosley's wide- raised. But he admitted that some of his assistants disagreed with matic Frequency Control. * him and added that they had a little bet going on it. At least one angle Family Theatre Screen — is assured Visit your Crosley Dealer and see shocked at hearing the by all these Seven Great Extra Values: how newspaper's editorial page was gravely Crosley is setting the pace in big picture price problem discussed as a coin-flipping matter. 1. Quality construction — so good it's television for years to come. To date, however, most observers have found the Di Salle can- backed by a full-year picture tube and * Patented. dor enormously refreshing, and it has been particularly reassuring extra cost. including parts warranty** at no **,Xot service, tabor costt or installation. to businessmen who are worried that everybody in Washington gets delusions of grandeur. It might even develop, if Di Salle lasts long enough, that he has done as much for the popularity of price CROSLEY controls as Irene Castle once did, in a slightly more glamorous way, for bobbed hair. Asked what he thinks of Washington, Di Salle is likely to reply, "Well, I think it's a wonderful town — but

I don't think the country could stand two of 'em." Or in a slightly more serious vein, but not too serious, "I get a big kick out of it. BETTER PRODUCTS FOR HAPPIER LIVING You know, the whole U.S. is just an extension of Toledo. I go to a Crosley Division iclvador B) Refr iirera tors • Freezers • Electric Ranges Senate committee hearing and I can always pick out a fellow, he Cincinnati 25, Ohio (avc6)leel Kitchen Cabinets • Sinks • Garbage Disposers Irk Water Heaters • Radios * Televisioo reminds me of a councilman back in Toledo. So I talk to him. THE PACE-SETTING DESIGNS ARE COMING FROM CROSLEY They're just people, you know." Recently some old friends from Ohio asked him how he managed to stand the pressure of his new

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Dave BENSON pulled his hat down tight and bent his head into the wind that whipped down Main Street. It was only a few blocks more to his office, but he decided to stop at Ward's stationery store and get out of the wind for a minute or two anyway. This wind had a bite to it. The young man back of the counter grinned when Dave came into the store stamp- ing his feet and rubbing his gloved hands together. "What's the matter, Mr. Benson? Breeze too much for you?"

"It's plenty cold out there, Jim. Mind if I stand here and thaw out for a few minutes?" "Glad to have you, Mr. Benson. By the

way, I have a message for you . . . from down South." "From your father?" Jim's father, Tom Ward, had run this cor- last, a few months ago, he had been able to turn ner stationery store for many, many years. In the store and all its stock over to young Jim and fact, it was a good thirty years before that Dave move down South with Mrs. Ward . . . Benson had come into this very same store, on just such a blustery March day as this, and had The sound of Jim Ward's voice brought spoken with Tom about liis life insurance. Dave him back to today. "Yes," the young man was remembered almost exactly what he had said to saying, "a message from Dad. He wanted to be Tom Ward—how an adequate life insurance remembered to you and said very particularly program would not only protect his wife and to thank you again for getting him on the right

family, but would help him retire later . . . train thirty years ago. Does that mean anything perhaps go South and take life easy. to you?"

And he remembered how Jim's father had Dave Benson laughed and said, "Yes, Jim, looked through the frosted store window at the it sure does! And it means something to you, wind-blown street and said, "Yes, it would be too. It means that the life insurance program nice to know that I could get away some day. you are building up is a mighty sound idea." I can almost hear the whistle of that train down Dave put on his gloves and turned up his collar. South right now!" "You see, you've got a reservation for yourself and your wife on that same train some day." Tom Ward had started then with a modest — New York Life policy, and had added to it NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY rather substantially as the years went by. At 61 Madison Avcnur, New York 10, N. Y. Naturally, name* uted in this glory are ficliliou*.

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This time get comfort that stays new job. "Well, you know how it is in Washington," he answered. "We earthshak ing for all the years you own itl Get comfort get a crisis every 20 minutes. Something happens. But the thing that makes it bearable is this — I'll bet you that's built in, then locked in to stay in. can't remember what last week's big crisis was!" At the time he Modern Triple Cushion construction was unsuccessfully wooing Tom Murphy, New York City's com- tufts, has does away with annoying no pelling and photogenic police commissioner, to be his enforcement inner cords to restrict coil action, official, a skeptic asked him if he had checked the idea with the prevents upholstery from working into Administration. "Nab," said Di Salle. "If you start checking things, you always run into lumps. This time invest in comfort those somebody who says no." for a long time — for thousands of nights In a recent appearance before a of wonderful, wonderful sleepl group of wholesale grocers who were Restonic Corp., Chicago 11 obviously fearing the worst, Di Salle stood before them silentlv for a moment, giving them a good chance to look him over. Then he said, "I smoke, lake an occasional drink and have five children." A great chuckle welled up \1 from his depths. "Would you agree

gUS that I have the usual American hab-

'"' '' speech be on t(i ' ul went ^j; -ktklTr "" -Us . J^^r talk to the National Canncrs Associ- ation. "Gentlemen, every now and again my wife takes a notion to do

some canning. Afterward I have to AT 8 Mike himself (upper left) figure the cost of the fruit, the vege- was the eldest of six children. tables, the sugar, the jars, the tops, the rubber rings, the gas and above all the damage to my wife's usually fine disposition. If you think I have any ambition to put you out of business you can forget it." In each case the businessmen stood around in little groups at the end of the speech, telling each other in surprised tones how much happier they were to have Di Salle than Leon Henderson. As his haberdashery suggests, Di Salle is a man of the people an Italian immigrant's son w ho was unable to speak a word of Eng- lish until he started to school. ("I grew up in an Irish neighborhood," he recalls, "and they gave me a rough lime.") His father, a metal polisher, joined the union, became one of its more vociferous Toledo members and got fired from his job. "I got a pretty good look at that side of things while I was growing up," Di Salle says. Later on he got an even more rounded look at things. His father started his own metal-plating firm, chiefly from hunger, and to everybody's

surprise it finally prospered. leading to an incident which Di Salle still recalls with considerable wonder and amusement. 'The union came in and started to argue, the same union my father had belonged to. He got mad. I said, 'Aren't those the same things you " used to say, father?' He said, 'Well, things are different now!' From the time he was 14 Di Salle worked in factories in the sum- mertime to help support himself and sometimes the family. By the time he was old enough for college things were looking up at see — Aho home and he went off to Georgetown University with his father's RESTONIC Fle«oform mottreti, Fir mf lex mottretf and other help. But in his junior year he decided to marry the daughter of the < f i n i-

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Messenger Service, the original assets of which consisted of his spare time, a heavily mortgaged Model-T coupe, a horrowed telephone and 5,000 blotters bearing the firm's advertisement, which CAVALCADE OF SPORTS he bought on credit and distributed in person around Washington office buildings. The Lightning Messenger Service grew rapidly even though it did not always live up to its name. By the time he 0 3 9 was graduated Di Salic had four trucks, with the time payments all up to date, and a staffof about five assistants. His father still did AN UNINSPIRED PERFORMER. not approve, but Di Salle has never understood why. "I told him be AT THIRD BASE AND IN THE OUTFIELD, BOB WAS HEADED got a bargain. He sent me away to college for an education and I ^ came back with not only an education but also a wife and baby." BACK TO THE MINORS IN INDIANS Di Salle was never a brilliant student, although possiblv he could 1946 WHEN THE DISCOVERED HE have been. At one time he bet a more COULD PITCH scholarly friend a banana split that he too could make straight "A'*S for the next six-week period if he set his mind

to it. The effect of the bet was spectac- ular but impermanent; as Di Salle puts jjJoB LEMON WON 20 OR MORE GAMES "1 it, won the banana split and then re- IN EACH OF HIS FIRST THREE YEARS . verted to type. I hope my own kids nev- AS A FULL-TIME CLEVELAND PITCHER. er see my report cards." However he HIS 1950 RECORD OP 23 VICTORIES had always been determined to be a law- TOPPED EVERY OTHER PITCHER yer and get into public life, and had so IN THE MAJORS. stated publicly in an essay written in the fifth grade on the subject of My Career. Back in Toledo after college, MATCHLESS SHAViNG with the depression just getting into BARGAIN full swing, be had a little trouble establishing himself as a lawyer and bad to augment his income by teaching a few BIG CHIEF got headdress rudiments of the law at a Catholic high from Indians visiting Toledo. school. But he had been out of college only two years when he brashly —and unsuccessfully — ran for office the first time. ("I ran for clerk of the municipal court, because that was the only office open to run for that year.") He finally got elected to the state legislature in 1937, served one term, got beaten again when D/SP£NS£Z/N \ Ohio reverted to its normally Republican ways, holed up as an em- ploye of the city law department until 1912 and was then elected STYR£N£ to the city council of Toledo as one of tw o Democrats who benefited TftAVCL CASC from proportional representation. He stayed on the council, got ilk more and more popular with both Democrats and Republicans and "Has handy compartment eventually became mayor in 1918. for used bfades This sort of background gives Di Salic a point of view which, in light of the recent bitter arguments be- ENJOY THE SLICKEST SHAVES EVER. . . AND tween statism and free enterprise and Jou BEST-LOOKING... WITH THE ULTRA-MODERN between the union and the boss, any con- THE GILLETTE SUPER-SPEED RAZOR. CONSIDER temporary political scholar would have THESE IMPORTANT GILLETTE ADVANTAGES — to call ambiguous. The fact of being INSTANT BLADE CHAN6ING- REAL SHAVING elected mayor greatly affected Di Salle, COMPORT— DOUBLE-EDGE ECONOMY/ ASK and even today when he discusses it he FOR A GILLETTE SUPER-SPEED RAZOR SET. forgets his usual wisecracking manner. He will confess, when pressed, that on that day he thought of his start as an Italian-speaking boy in an Irish neigh- Z/P.. borhood, thought of all his family's ear- Blade hooks only handicaps and decided, 'This is really drops in place something!" Last year he visited Eu- rope; he has expressed his strongest impression in these words, "I saw the little village where my father was born. I'm In (roes certainly glad he decided to migrate." /or 7ops M Sfarth? £&se } STREET CLEANER was a Used Blade The same sentiment sometimes catches part played in a civic stunt. A/wstys cVse him when he is traveling around the nation en route to h is speeches as priceboss He will suddenly look out the window of an airplane or a train, or Gillette Blue Blades look up from a big meal in a restaurant. He w ill sigh and say, apropos • You skim off tough beard slick as a of nothing, "It's a great country!" whistle with today's Gillette Blue Blades. Their far outlast On the other hand, having once been an underdog, Di Salle is super-keen double edges the ordinary kind . . . save you money. inclined to take the part of the underdog in any argument over Gillette's improved Dispenser ZIPS out a economic theory, even when the theory conflicts with what some new blade PRESTO and has a handy com- people think are the basic American principles. Recently on a train partment for used blades. Always use Di Salle sat up far too late in the night debating with a man in the Gillette Blue Blades in your Gillette Razor. lounge car who happened to be on the staffof the National Associa- tion of Manufacturers. The N.A.M. man was arguing what most 10 BLADES49t economists feel are the unalterable if unpleasant facts of life —in other words that our present inflation is simply a matter of too much purchasing in relation power to the supply of goods avail- ' / ! P ,,p; use Gillette Blue Blades able. His argument, a hard one to refute on any logical HONED grounds, went look5^ &el^ ibe^ WITH THE SHAKPCST EDGES EVER CopyrlfM, by CIllHle S.frty Rtwr Co., something like this: The government, by its policy of borrowing

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vast sums from banks through government bonds, creates so much BETTY HUTTON Co-starring in Cecil B. DeMille's bank credit that the effect is the same as if it kept the printing "THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH." A Paramount Release presses running all night turning out greenbacks with nothing behind them; the value of money is necessarilv debased. At the same time the rearmament program is increasing the number of jobs, the hours worked and the level of weekly wages, but is actually decreasing the amount of goods that a civilian can buy. Since the government refuses to tax away the excess purchasing power

especially since it is leery of putting any effective taxes on the lower income groups who do most of the purchasing because they exist in the greatest numbers — prices are bound to rise. The only way to combat inflation is to end the government's cheap money policy, pay for the rearmament program as we go and lax away the excess money, especially at the consumer level. Di Salic did not attempt to answer the argument on logical

grounds. He merely felt that it would be a sin Li a time like this to let prices go up. He also felt it would be unfair to levy too many taxes on the underdog. "You take a fellow who's never had a break," he said. "He's never had too good a job. never had much of a chance, and he hasn't been able to buy a television set or an automobUe. Now all of a sudden he's working 48 hours a w eek for good wages and for the first time in his life he can do it. Do you want to take that television set or that automobile away from him in taxes? Per-

sonally I don't. I don't think it's right." The argument also went off into several side issues. The N.A.M. man thought that the only incentives to hard work and progress were money or fame. Di Salle thought there were other and more important incentives— for instance his immigrant father's desire to educate the children, or the desire of his own son, Mike Jr., to w ork just long enough to retire and buy a fishing shack somewhere.

The N.A.M. man thought it was especially important, if you wanted increased production, not to take the incentive away from businessmen. Di Salle agreed that industry ought to make a fair profit for its efforts, but beyond that he had some reservations. "I get a little tired," he said, "of having one business after another come in and say, 'If you want production you've got to have incentives' —and by incentives always meaning cash. At a time like this, instead of oo-oo-OOH it making money and paying right out again in excess profits taxes, why don't businessmen pass on the benefits to the public in the

form of lower prices and build up goodw ill for the future? Or maybe ...-that awful stuff we all need a different incentive anyway in this sort of period. May- be the incentive is just self-preservation." in my car? ." "A funny thing about that conversation . .

A mucked-up oil filter can cost you THE argument had an aftermath which probably tells a great deal about Mike Di Salle. The next morning at breakfast on plenty in engine repairs. Get in a the train he sat down next to a man who had been an interested listener to the debate. W hile he w as waiting for his orange juice Di * new Purolator Refill — quick! Salle looked at the man and said, "A funny thing about that conversation. I lay awake last night trying to figure out just what the

other fellow and I w ere disagreeing about . I never did get the answer. Would you believe it —two pounds of this dirty Seems to me we weren't very far apart at all." Di Salle has frequently sludge in your ear? Yet that's just about average for every expressed similar sentiments, which, depending on one's viewpoint,

5,000 miles you drive. And soon as it chokes up vour oil could be called either hopelessly naive, naively hopeful, a matter of political fence-straddling, or even a matter of political genius if you filter, gritty abrasives slip into your engine . . . grind away think of politics as the art of making various antipathetic people at precision parts. Down goes your ear's efficiency— go up work together for the common good. In 1945 Di Salle first gained your repair bills. the attention of Washington by establishing a successful manage- ment-labor council to act on some of his city's bitterest labor dis- What to do? Don't delay— gel in a clean filter refill — fast. putes. As a result of that experience one of his favorite phrases is, Which make? Pays to buy the best— a Purolator Micronic*. New "If you only get a chance to talk to people, you can always bring accord ion -type design gives up to 10 times the filtering area them together." Of his job as price boss he once said, "This whole

with pores so tiny they trap particles you cau l even see. thing is going to be a lot of fun. In the first place, I think you can do

a service. In the second place, 1 think you can do it w ithin the frame- Cost much? Strictly small change $1.38 to S3.00. depending on work of the free enterprise system. You can let people live pretty car make. (Complete housing and refill $0.50 up.) much as they please and still make sure that nobody takes advan- Take long? Only a few minutes— at your favorite service station, tage of anybody else. It's only 5% of the people who make all the garage or car dealer. Purolator Products, Inc., ." trouble, and all you have to do is take care of them. . .

Kahway, IS. J.; Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Perhaps it is just as w ell that Mike Di Salle, man of goodwill but no deep student of economics, is dow n in Washington w ith only two • Res. U.S. Pot. Off. suitcases; in fact he would be even wiser to keep one of them packed. In the first place, his job is probably impossible and he is in the position of a well-fattened sacrificial lamb. The consuming public is bound to expect the same performance from him as from the old OPA, which ditl do a pretty good job of keeping dow n the cost of RirOlator living regardless of what its critics thought of its methods, but that MICRONIC® kind of performance is almost out of the question under 1951 conditions. The W orld W ar II mobilization came after a long deflationary IL FIL period in w hich prices were low, purchasing power was scarce and

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the whole economy had a lot of rusty and missing cylinders that could be luned up and put to use. The current remobilization comes at a lime when prices are already at a record high, money is flowing like water and just about every man and machine is already busy. Under these circumstances it is hard to see how anvbody could keep the inflationary boiler from bursting as long as our fiscal and tax policies keep piling fuel on the fire —and except for the new government bond policy announced March 3, nobody has shown any signs of being willing to cut off the fuel. We got through one big war without requiring any real sacrifice ynade with from anybody but the soldiers, and everybody in Washington seems to hope—against the evidence— that we can get through our re- MEAL mobilization the same way. The politicians have been acting on the assumption that things can be kept from getting too bad through nightly prayer, and that is why Washington is pleased for the moment with an amiable and prayerful man like Di Salle. Di Salle is a politician too. and he happens to be the kind who passionately believes and desires that everybody should be happy and prosperous. He has been talking in terms that by-pass economic facts and make the whole problem sound like psychology: he likes to say that people have always thought prices were too high, and he feels that the dol- V lars and cents figures do not matter so much if only you can preserve some kind of pre-Korcan relationship between the average income starring in and the price index. This is pleasant talk and right now Di Salle is "CALL ME MISTER" everybody's friend. In the long run, however, it will probablv turn out that for a price a 20th Century-Fox Production Color by Technicolor boss Di Salle is a little too gregarious and all-encompassing for his own good. Anybody who has to keep down prices against the pull In a casserole, combine one of all economic laws must step hard on the toes of somebody, and can of Star-Kist Tuna with Di Salle not only hates to step on toes but feels that anybody who two cans of Franco-American possesses toes must be one of Cod's creatures. What you really need Spaghetti. Top with buttered for that kind of unnatural job is a man with a lot of hates. Hating bread crumbs, heat, and serve! nobody, Di Salle is at a great disadvantage. He is not likely to make anybody very mad except the more humorless and protocol-loving Generous Ser rings Washingtonians. On the other hand he will never to please in just 5 minutes! manage everybody and eventually will almost surely be back in Toledo, wiser and thinner but probably no sadder at all. He has already said, of the score of men who turned down the price job before it was i offered to him, "They were obviously smarter than I was."

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The battleship is a tough old lady and not easily in them to keep the humidity below 40%. With killed off. After World War II many Navy car- a handful of men watching over her, the Wis- rier men thought they had done just that, but consin was a dead ship. when the Missouri's big guns started blasting Early this year the Wisconsin was towed from Korea from the shoreline to 20 miles inland, Newport News to a drydock in Norfolk. Men the Navy decided to take two of the Big Mo's from the Naval Shipyard then undid what had sister ships out of mothballs. been done more than two and a half years be- One of these is the ship the Navy calls BB 64, fore. The sealed compartments were reopened, the 45,000-ton Wisconsin. Built in three years guns unplugged, preservative oils, plastics and at a cost of over S100 million, she had had one fluids cleaned away. The hull was cleaned, then year's fighting with Admiral W. F. Halsey from painted with antifouling paint, and her four the Philippines to Japan. In 1948, after several propellers and two rudders were scraped. goodwill and training cruises, the Wisconsin, But when the demothballing work was done was decommissioned and tied up at a Newport and the Wisconsin was again in commission, News dock. There she was put in mothballs. she would have to take on some 9,000 tons of Metal covers were lowered over her deck gun supplies before leaving port. There would be mounts and her 16-inch guns were plugged and ammunition for her 141 guns, 2J£ million gal- greased. Everything which would corrode on lons of fuel oil and such crcw-plcascrs as 250,- deck was taken below to one of the nine zones 000 packs of cigarets, 50,000 packs of razor BEGINNING HER NEW LIFE, tin- Wisconsin into which the ship was divided. These zones blades, 120,000 candy bars, 10,000 handker- sits in a Norfolk drydock, her decks a littered mass were sealed one from the other and from the chiefs, 20,000 pairs of socks and enough pow- of men and equipment. It took 10 weeks to make her outside. Dehumidifying machinery was set up dered mix to make 300,000 ice cream cones. shipshape and ready lo go lo sea for her first trials.

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Tii a colli March drizzle ihc Wisconsin was reenmmis- sioned with traditional naval ceremony. \\ bile a band played ihc national anthem her color? went n|> on the flagstaff, a commission pennant was hoisted to the truck alio -lie was i nice again on active duly. In the speeches, \\ isconsin's Governor Kohler said this event rave "clear notice to our enemies that our patience i« wearing thill," and the captain semijocularly asked that the guests take

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— WILLA CATHER COUNTRY SHE WROTE ABOUT A NEW, UNTAMED AMERICA

CATHER AT 28 TEXT AND PICTURES BY DAVID E.SCHERMAN

In 1902. back from Europe in a Thirty years ago Willa Sibert Cather of Red the finest of her novels O Pioneers!, My An- Paris gown, Willa Cather had already begun her career writing Cloud, Neb. said: "A book is made with one's tonio, A Lost Lady. Today, in a time that finds for a Lincoln, Neb. newspaper. own Hesh and blood of years ... it is cremated America rediscovering its literary greats (Mel- youth. It is all yours— no one gave it to you." ville, James, Fitzgerald), Willa Cather, who The "flesh and blood" of her years was her child- died in 1947, stands among lliem as a novelist hood on the bleak Nebraska land of the '80s and whose works are unmatched for clear beauty

'90s. There she rode her pony over the still- and a kinship with the American pioneer spirit. unplowed prairies, visiting Bohemian, Norwe- She had an overwhelming ambition to write, gian, Swedish, German, French and Russian undeviating devotion to her art and a sparse immigrants who were her friends, forging her yet luminously rich style. She drew the Ameri- "The pale, cold light of tfie winter sunset did education in the struggle of these homestead- can countryside with such clarity of detail and not beautify" the Nebraska divide where ers and her own family to overcome the lone- poetic accuracy that the camera, retracing her Willa Cather lived. But in summer, she wrote, liness of the terrifying new life. steps today, can still find and record the scenes "there is something frank and joyous ... in the open face of the country," and the heavy grain Such was the stuff from which she fashioned as Willa Cather saw them and set them down. "bends toward the blade and cuts like velvet."

ill'''' 'y WILLA CATI IKK CONTINUED Now 82, Annie Pavelka of

Bladen. Neb., Willa's life- Ion;; frienfi and inspiration for My Antonia, still has what the writer called the "full vigour of her personality, battered but not di- minished," of her youth.

"My Antonia" recalls Willa's Nebraska years

As a child Willa Gather was outgoing and active, a constant visitor to around the hearty Czech pioneer above, Mrs. Annie Sadilek Pavelka. the farms around Red Cloud and an inquisitive but welcome guest in the Taking the role of a reminiscing Nebraskan, Cather traced Annie's story farmhouse kitchens. The places and people she knew during this period from the time she arrived on the Burlington railway's "immigrant car" are the subject of a new book, The World of Willa Cather (Dodd, Mead, and could say only, "We go Black Hawk, Nebraska," through her early 83.50) by Mildred R. Bennett, who with Life's photographer revisited life in a cave dug out of a draw-bank and her years of working as a "hired many of the scenes and friends of Willa's childhood. girl" for the Cather neighbors, to her eventual return to the land as a Miss Cather's portraits were usually composites of a number of real-life farm wife and mother of 13. To her friend "Willie" Cather, Annie was all her people, but friends feel that her autobiographical My Antonia centered life the symbol of the conquest of the New World by pioneers from the Old.

RED CLOUD, NEB. I.N 1910 AND 1951

Red Cloud was the "Black Hawk" of j\/>- Antonia, the "Hanover" of 0 Pioneers*., Lucy GtiYheart and the fictional village of a dozen other stories. A thriving rail- the "Sweet Water" of A Lost Lady. "Frankfort" of One of Ours, "Haverford" of way town of almost 5,000 in Willa's day (left), it is only a third that size today.

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ON VACATION IN WYOMING

Willa drives a handcar along the Burlington rails near Cheyenne. Like all her experiences, railroading appears in her stories and novels.

Pioneers and the prairie were her raw materials

Willa Cather left Nebraska in 1896, having graduated from the university in 1895. She did newspaper work in Pittsburgh, was managing editor of McClures Magazine, went to Europe. Her first novel, Alexander s Bridge (1912), written in the genteel style of the day, was unpromising. Then in 1913, having been away from the prairies for 17 years, she—wrote O Pioneers! "This was the first time I walked off on my own feet " she inscribed in a friend's copy, "everything before was half real and half an imitation of writers w hom I admired. In this one I hit the home pasture." The "home pasture" was Nebraska, where ' the great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes ... [as if] men were too weak to make any mark here." Houses were "few and far apart; here and there a windmill gaunt against the sky, a sod house crouching in a hollow." It was a land that could reward its settlers with corn that grew 16 feet tall one year and drive them to ruin the next. "The cornfields were far apart in those times," she wrote years later in My Antunia. "It took a clear, med- itative eye like my grandfather's to foresee that they would enlarge and multiply until they would be . . . the world's cornfields; that their yield would be one of the great economic facts, like the wheat crop of Russia, which underlie all the activities of men, in peace or war." Willa Cather wrote about this world from firsthand experience. She had been brought there from a Virginia farm at the age of 9, and the shock of the inhospitable prairie left an impression she never forgot:

"That shaggy grass country had gripped me with a passion I have never been able to shake. It lias been the happiness and the curse of my life!" A lonely Nebraska farm besieged by a snowstorm recalls the opening lines of O

Pioneers!: "One January day . . . the little town of Hanover, anchored on a windy

In 0 Pioneers! Willa remembered the "winding ravine," near her prairie home in Webster County, "with steep, shelving sides overgrown with brush and cotton-

"The brown earth, with such a strong, clean smell, and such a power of growth

and fertility in it, yields itself eagerly to the plow; rolls away from the shear, not even dimming the brightness of the metal, with a soft, deep sigh of happiness.'* Thus she wrote of spring plowing and furrows that "often lie a mile in length.**

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Nebraska tableland, was trying not to be blown away . . .; some of [the dwelling* bouses] looked as if . . . they were straying off . . . headed for the open plain."

woods and dwarf ash. . . . Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the 1 absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening,*

Through the eyes of a returning Nebraskan in My Antonin, Willa Cather redis — covers a piece of the old road of her youth that "used to run like a wild tiling across the open prairie, clinging to the high places and circling and doubling like a rabbit before the bounds." with niti "like gashes torn by a grizzly's claws."

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE "A great black figure suddenly appeared on the face of the sun" to the girts in My Antonia. "On Mime up- land farm, a plough had been left standing in the field. The sun was sinking just behind it. Magnified across the distance by the horizontal light, it stood out . . . heroic in size, a picture writing on the sun." In the graveyard near "Catherton," under the tall shaft at left, lies Willa's uncle. George P. Gather, who helped plan Webster County in 1873. Looking at such a scene, old Mr. Ro«icky in Ohscttre Destinies thought the "fine snow, settling into this . . . grass and upon the . . . headstones, looked very pretty."

Ti> Mr. RoMcky. who liked let stop "by the windmill

to look up at t he frosty winter stars,'* his home was

dear, "but the sleeping fields and . . . noble dark- ness were dearer still." Many friends saw in dying Rosicky the sensitive John Pavelka, hardworking husband of the capable Annie shown on page 115.

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE W1LLA CATIIKK CONTINUED She wrote of Quebec and the Southwest

In two of her later and vastly successful novels, Willa Cather deserted Nebraska for French Quebec and the Spanish South- west. Bui ihough the locale of her stories changed, their main theme did not. It was always the clash of old, well-established European cultures on an untamed new America. Shadows on the Rock (1931) told of the transplanting of the adventurous Count Frontenac and his retinue from the sumptu- ous court of Louis XIV to the barren rock of "Kebec" — a town of "shivering spires; the whole . . . like one great white church, above the frozen river." The soldier-nobleman's efforts to return to France frame the placid tale of a little French girl whose wid- owed father, Euclide Auclair, is apothecary to the count. Fron- tenac's attempts to get home fail. He dies in Quebec and the doctor is stranded with his daughter in the lonely new world. "Not without reason," he thinks bitterly, "had the Latin poets insisted

that thrice and four times blessed were those to whom it befell to die in the land of their fathers." The same longing for France, and the same fate, are the lot of a pioneer, saintly Jean Marie Lalour, in Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927). In rigidly simple fashion, Miss Cather wove into his story the "fragrance of hot sun and sagebrush and sweet clover" of the New Mexico desert, and "sleep, camelian hills" of the Sangre de Cristo range, peopled not by her cultured Scandi- navian homesteaders but unlettered Navaho, Apache and Pueblo aborigines, a faithful flock who gave as much in ancient tribal mysteries to Father Lalour as he to them of the true religion.

Apothecary Euclide Auclair's house could have been this one, the last still standing on the hill that leads down to Lower Town of old Quebec.

- Little Jacques, son of a raffish, sailor-loving harlot, whom Gather's young heroine, CfScile, befriended, played on these narrow streets below

Count Frontenac' s high chateau. Even in Quebec the novelist recalled her youth; in Jacques there is something of her little nephew Charles.

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By the time the wrote Death Comes fnr the Arehbishop in

1927, Willa Gather WU t lie iir>t lady of American letters, with a Pulitzer prize (1922). She won honorary decrees

from Mi. . . Nehra*ka. Vale, ('olumhia and IVineeton, > m :

Archbishop Latour visited the oM church on Acoma mesa, from whose cliffs, legends say, angry natives threw a tyrannical priest into desert.

In the owning pages of Death Comes fur the Archlnsiiop. Father Jean -

Marie Latour. making his way north to Santa Fe and his new diorese. i> lost among the "miles of . . . conical red hills ... so exactly like one another that In? seemed to he wandering in some geometrical nightmare."

CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE WILLA CATIIRR CONTINUED

Statue of Father Jean Lamy stands before the cathedral he built in Santa Fc.

Real French churchman inspired "Archbishop"

The parish priest of tiny Villanueva. almost as isolated today as Santa Fe was in — "I never passed the life-size bronze. . . which stands . . .before tbeCathedral Father Lamv's dav, travels the rocky hanks nf the Pecos "no easy life," a Vat- in Santa Fe without wishing that I could learn more about a pioneer ican cardinal is told in the prologue to Death Comes for the Archhishop, "He will churchman who looked so well-bred and distinguished," said Willa Gather eat dried buffalo meat . . . and he will be glad to drink water when he can get it." of her fust trip to the Southwest. Years later, she found a book printed in Pueblo, Colo, telling about Father Jean Lamy (above) and bis bustling vicar, Father Joseph Machebeuf. From this book and the local legends she wrote her classic Death Comes for the Archbishop, whose Jean Marie I^atour is only a thinly disguised portrait of Father Lamy. The archbishop's parish was a domain "larger than Central and West- ern Europe, barring Russia," a territory now covered by three bishops and

three archbishops. Far from the comely villages of his native Auvergne, it was a country he had learned to love. "He did not know," Willa Cather

w rote, "just when it had become so necessary to him, but he had come back

to die in exile for the sake of it. Something soft and wild and free, something that whispered to the ear on the pillow, lightened the heart, softly, softly picked the lock, slid the bolts, and released the prisoned spirit of man into the wind, into the blue and gold, into the morning, into the morning!"

Father Lamy spent his declining years in this little chapel iinrtli of Santa Fe. Willa Cather lived there while writing.

South of the Cathedral of St. Francis in Santa Fe is Father Lamy*s orchard. "The On one til tin- lours of his parish tin* archhishop came upon the Enchanted Mesa, — Bishop brought his fruit trees (then dry switches) up from St. Louis in wagons, and his Inilian guide, Jacinto, told him that on this "there had once been a vil- along with the blessed Sisters of Lorctto. who came to found the Academy of Our lage, but the stairway which had been the only access to it was broken off by a great Lady of Light," wrote Gather. The orchard anil the sisters are still flourishing. storm many centuries ago, and its people had perished up there from hunger."

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Cop MRS. LINCOLN'S LETTERS had been written to Mrs. Alexanderson's great-grandfather, Ahram Wakeman, who held a federal job in New York. Mrs. Alexanderson found them stuck away in her mother's attic in a house where Wakeman once lived. They reveal Wakeman as Mrs.— Lincoln's confidant. She warned him repeatedly "this is between ourselves" and "say nothing about receiving a line from me."

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MRS. ALEXANDERSON AND APPRAISER ROTHSCHILD CO OVER LINCOLN LETTERS AT THE ANTIQUES SHOW

New Jersey housewife brings New York appraiser six confidential letters written by Lincoln's wife

Sigmund Rothschild is an appraiser who for 15 years has spent most of his time explaining to people that the old family fiddle is not a Slrad- ivarius and that Paul Revere did not make a tenth of the silver pots attributed to him. But, last week, an appraiser's pipe dream materi- alized for Rothschild. At the annual National Antiques Show in New York, Mrs. Vcrner Al- exanderson of Englewood, N.J. brought three baskets of old papers for appraisal. In them were six letters written by Lincoln's wife Mary to Abram Wakeman. The Wakeman papers, one of the biggest Lincoln finds in decades, are worth more than S100,000. Highly confidential, Mrs. Lincoln's letters are studded with cryptic references to a Mr. and Mrs. B., a Mr. W. and to E., whom Mary accuses of "vile falsehoods." Mrs. Alexanderson got the appraisal at Rothschild's special Antiques Show bargain rate of SI. At his 57th Street workshop (next page) Rothschild charges 85. He also appraises for estates and insurance companies, appears regularly on television shows. His only experience comparable to finding the Lincoln letters camein 1950 when he recognized S30,000 Vclazi ALL SORTS OF THINGS were brought to Roth- Garden. He examined 250 items a day: paintings, quez under the dust and dirt of an old painting. scbild (center) at Antiques Show ill Madison Square vases, dolls, linen — and the best emerald he ever saw.

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Coc TRUCK COMPANY 26

New York hook and ladder firemen cope

with tenement blazes, trapped tenants

and smoke so thick it makes them sick

by Robert L. Schwartz

YORK Hook and Ladder Truck No. 26 probably answers NEWmore alarms than any other piece of fire apparatus anywhere.

In the course of a typical day it answers eight alarms; in an average year it rolls out of its station some 3,000 times. One particularly busy day it answered 18 alarms in 15 hours. No. 26 is one of 154 hook and ladder trucks and 270 pumping engines, operated by the world's busiest fire-fighting force with a staff of 10,500 men who answer 62,000 alarms a year. Built by Seagrave in Columbus, Ohio in 1937, No. 26 was stationed for its first four years in New York in a firehouse on Canal Street in lower Manhattan. There- after it was stationed in its present location at Madison Avenue and East 114lh Street. There it has the primary responsibility of protect- ing the Negro, Puerto Rican and white citizens crowded into a near- TILLERMAN I'LLLS HARK AT HEAR WHEEL TO TAKE TRUCK 26 slum area of l?s square miles beginning above the fashionable part of Park Avenue and extending into poorest Harlem. The city paid $14,000 for Truck 26 in 1937, and it would cost $35,000 A recent session brought together three of Truck 26's firemen. to replace now. The city has no plans to replace it, which is fine with Charles Steinhauser. a heroically proportioned man with a cheerful, the 30 firemen who make up Truck Company 26. They are comfort- confident manner who has been a fireman for 13 years, was talking able with their old Seagrave and show no envy of midtown companies about his days as a probationary fireman. (About one third of all dis- whose trucks are equipped with new-style lightweight aluminum lad- cussions in a firehouse begin: "When I was a proby . . .") Said Stein- ders that are put up by hydraulic power. They give No. 26 nothing hauser, "When I was a proby down in the 2nd Division, on the Lower beyond the prescribed, routine care, and none of them would think of East Side, nobody in the house spoke to anybody and nobody read patting it on the hood after a big fire or otherwise showing any regard anything. They just sat at the w indow all day and watched the people for it. They did once buy a Sears, Roebuck battery charger for it with go by. When I brought in Thomas W olfe's novels to read, they looked their own money because they got tired of waiting for the mainte- at me like I was crazy." nance department to supply one. They have no name for it other than The Truck, which serves to distinguish it from The Engine, which be- longs to Engine Company 58 and shares the big, three-story firehouse. THREE TRICK MEN TVI.K \T THE H REHOUSE KITCHEN TABLE The Truck and The Engine usually go to the same fires, where each performs special functions. The engine company lays hose and lights the fire with water or chemicals. The truck company, after rescuing anyone trapped in the burning building, busies itself with hook? and axes, chopping entrances for the hose men and exits for smoke, and "overhauls" burned-out areas to look for smouldering debris. There

is a minor, low-key rivalry between 58 and 26 but it isn't an important one. Firemen agree that truck men are more glamorous to the public because they tend to be bigger than engine men and because they dash up ladders to save people. But the engine men always win firehouse arguments by saying, "We put water on the fire which, as you may have heard, is what puts fires out." The two companies share all the firehousc's conveniences: a television set, ping-pong and pool tables, a carpentry shop and a darkroom which they paid for themselves, and a large kitchen adjoining the main floor of the house. Sometimes the men join to prepare a common meal in the kitchen, but usually each one brings his own food from home. The kitchen is the room in which the men prefer to hold their bull sessions. In this firehouse the intellectual level of bull sessions is high, a fact which sometimes provides a subject for a hull session. AROl.NI> CORNER. THICK I SES Itl-I.l. AMI KXII VI ST \\ IIISTI.K IN TR VI FIC SIVK SIKKNS VRE NOW RESERVED FOR VIII II VII) W MINING

"Like some of those lire] louses oul in State n Island and in Queens,' long they distrust anything llial represents law and order— they feel said Hill McGowan. a pug-nosed, taciturn man who usually wears his it wasn 1 designed to protect them. l inn, when they lind somebody blue-cloth uniform hat around the house. "They're pinochle firemen." actually iiirhtini: through ihc smoke to hel|> than, they're so pleased Sensitive-looking Karl Hope asked why everyone at Truck 26" they fumhle lor enough words to say thank you.'" seemed so bright. Thai's one reason I like it here, he Said. "The thing you've hit there.'" said Hope, "is the satisfaction of bring Steinhauser guessed it was mostly coincidence. McGowan put in useful. These days everybody seems to be Irving to give everybody that working in Harlem made firemen philosophical. These charac- else a bad lime— or maybe ihey just have to to make a living— and ters who live up here, one minute they won't move over for the lire there's a lot ol satisfaction in having a job w here you can help people." Iruck. and the next, when you're saving their house, they're so damn A new man walked in from oul front and poured himself a cup of grateful you feel like crying. They've just been shoved around for so eolfec. "If you didn't want to be useful," he said, "you could always be a cop." The others laughed. "I wouldn't want to be a cop in Harlem," said

ITIOM I. KIT': III I.I. McliOW VN. E VIII. NOI'E. Ill VIII. KV STEINII VI SEH McGowan. It s a tough job with the social pressures you find up here."

"Just the same," said the new man. "they must like it or they wouldn't be cops in the first place." The three men smiled and he walked out.

You know what impressed me most when I first joined this out- fit?" said Hope. "It was the way you guys knew as soon as the hell rang

whether it was a real fire or just a false alarm. I'd rush out and fine of

you would sa\. "l ake it easy. Karl, the, c's no lire there." Then, when

we gol there, there never was one. The ne\t time, if I was slow getting into my coat, somebody'd sav. 'Let's go— ibis is a worker.' \nd it al- wavs was. It look me most of a year lo learn which boxes alwav s gel pulled by kids and drunks and which boxes always have the fires."

"You know a working box?" said Sleinhausrr. "1385 at 1 Huh Street

and Fifth. Every lime that damn thing rings I gel dressed to spend

the night there. I vc been at lour big fires there In the last year."

"And all those boxes on First Avenue from 100th Street to I 10th arc false boxes," said McGowan. "Kids play in the streets down there in the summer and you get called out half a dozen times a week. Slcinhauser got up and poured coffee for everybody. He took his

lunch bag oul of the refrigerator and pit I two hamburgers into a skillet on the stove. "How come you became a fireman. McGowan?" he asked.

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You hear a lot about SPRINGS PORTABLE TOOL AND EQUIPMENT BOXES AN O PISTONS GENERATOR "WONDER DRUGS"

HOOK AND LADDER EQUIPMENT is shown in pic- desired, and the turntable makes it possible to turn it in ture of a Seagrave truck of the same vintage as New York's any direction. The lowering crank recoils the springs which What about Tampax, No. 26. To raise the aerial ladder, the tillerman's scat and pull the aerial down. The portable ladders are 25 and 35 windshield are swung to one side, his steering wheel un- feet long and are used against the sides of buildings. The the Wonder Method? screwed and taken out. A hand brake on the turntable is scaling ladders are 12, 14 and 16 feet long and have a hook released, allowing the springs to push hack the pistons which at the end which allows a fireman to hang them on a pro-

hold t lie aerial ladder down in its lied, and the ladder rises. jection above him, High among the discoveries of the last climb up. pull the ladder after him and The fly ladder wheel extends the aerial to its full length if repeat few years stands Tampax, that revolu- the performance until he gets to the height desired. tionary method for giving better sanitary protection to TRUCK COMPANY 26 CONTINUED floor of an old, six-story apartment building was women . . . And please remember on fire. No flames were visible but smoke poured that Tampax is really different, "To get the hell out of Macy's," said McGow- from all four corners of the roof. One of the men on basically different, because it is worn in- — Truck 26 said, "Damn!" as it. ternally. Therefore no odor can form. an. "I was working as a shipping clerk and soon as he saw Roof fires are hard No belts or pins are used. No external "You, too?" said Steinhauser. "That's where work for truck men because the whole pads or bulk of any kind. Tampax causes I worked before I came in." roof usually has to be laid bare after the fire. no bulges, ridges, wrinkles to show "What a place that was in '35," said McGowan. As the truck pulled up in front of the building through your dress or skirt. "I felt like Charlie Chaplin in that movie Modern the firemen ran to the street with hooks and axes. efficiency, Tampax combines conve- Times. Every time I turned around some guy with Engine men were already stretching a hose into the and wearer — nience, comfort— gives the a a stop watch was timing me front door and up the stairs. The men from 26 ran feeling of up-to-dateness and well-being. The gonging of the alarm bell interrupted him. to the outside rear fire escape and climbed up to Invented by a physician, Tampax is con- They fell silent and counted the strokes. "1406," the roof. structed or pure, soft absorbenr cotton said Steinhauser. "We roll on this one." (Truck 26 Outside in the street the lieutenant in charge of which comes to you in smooth, white Truck looked applicators designed for easy insertion. does not respond to all alarms sounded in its sta- 26 around for the battalion chief, the Your hands need never touch the Tam- tion.) They pushed back the bench from the table senior officer for that district, who was coming pax—and you can take your tub or and began to trot toward the door. Steinhauser, from another firehouse. He hadn't arrived yet. So shower without even removing it! in the lead, took his hamburgers off the burner on the lieutenant said to Reynolds, the driver, "Bet- Millions of women now use Tampax the stove and turned off the gas without losing a ter put up the aerial." Reynolds and Hunt, the and it is particularly a favorite in women's step. Suddenly he stopped and turned. He put his tillerman (who steers the rear wheels), cranked college towns. Buy Tampax at drug or arm around Hope and spoke with mock serious- up the ladder. notion counters. A month's supply will ness. "Tell me, Earl, is this a false box or a worker?" Inside the building smoke had poured down from go into your purse and it's easily dis- Hope grinned at him. "You're going to a fire, the top as far as the third floor. There, standing on posable. Three absorbency-sizes: Reg- Charley," he said. the landing as the firemen passed a hose upward, ular, Super, Junior. Economy box lasts one Negro woman said to another, 4 months, average. Look for Tampax "You're right!" said Steinhauser, and they "This is a terri- Vendor in restrooms throughout the rushed to The Truck. ble house. Always fires and drinking." On the floor United States. Tampax Incorporated, The other firemen had slid down the brass poles above, a lone woman spoke out in a tone of indigna- Palmer, Mass. from the upper floors and were putting on their tion, "The danger people can be in through some- coats. They kept an ear cocked toward the watch one's carelessness. And with children in the house." desk — from there, the man on watch would call out On the top two floors the smoke was thick and the box number and location. "1406," he shouted, heavy. Firemen gasped and coughed and their eyes "Park Avenue and 1 18th Street. Engine and Truck were red and running. The fire had so far not gone both First Due." This meant that they were the beyond one apartment on the top floor. With the companies closest to the fire and expected to ar- hose coupled and ready, the word was passed down rive on the scene ahead of any others who might for water. Then, just as the men from 26 chopped also be called out. through the roof, the men from 58 knocked down It was five blocks to Box 1406. Some of the men the burning door and advanced on the flames.

Accepted tor Advcrtiring hanging onto the side of Truck 26 watched the sky- They pushed into the apartment and the smoke by the Journal of the American Medical Attoctation ahead to see if they could spot smoke or flame. closed over them. Soon one of them hurried out There was none. Some of the men always watch the and ran to a window in an adjoining apartment. TAMPAX INCORPORATED LF-IMl-f Palmer, Mass. sky, others watch The Engine, which rolls one He yelled, "More pressure, more pressure!" Please send me in plain wrapper a trial package of block ahead of them, or the traffic, which is such From the street a voice came up faintly: "How Tampax. 1 enclose lOi (stamps or silver) to cover cost of mailing. Size is checked below. a major hazard that the men hang onto the top- much more pressure?"

REGULAR ) SUPER ( ) JUNIOR ( ) ( most ladder so they can scramble up if a collision "Ten pounds!" replied the inside fireman, and looms. Name There was no sign of smoke until the truck left the window. came out under the New York Central tracks on The engine pumping could be heard running Address shabby upper Park Avenue. Then there was plenty louder and faster. The smoke began to disappear

City State of it. On the far side of the avenue the whole top rapidly. There were large holes in the roof now

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TRUCK COMPANY 26 cont.nued

antl most of the windows had been knocked out —many of them by the big ladder of Truck 26. When Reynolds and Hunt saw that it would not be needed for rescue or entrance used end NATIONAL JOY SMOKE they the of the THE ladder to knock out windows six stories in the air. Inside the building the stairs were suddenly crowded with new firemen pulling up another hose. The new men filled the stairway and those on top were surprised to see them. "What the hell are you doing here?'' asked the lieutenant. His voice was a mixture of Irish brogue, raspiness and disbelief. "This is a second alarm," said the lead fireman. "This!" said the lieutenant. "Well, go in and relieve the men on that hose, since you're here." The lieutenant then waited at the top of the stairway for the lieutenant from the new engine company to show up. When he did, he asked him who turned in a second alarm. HERE'S A TREAT The new lieutenant said that a deputy chief, who outranked the battalion chief now on the scene, had arrived and turned it in. "He FOR LITTLE FEET! did it because he saw the cornice move out 14 inches,"' said the new lieutenant, "and he thought there was tremendous pressure in here. He thought the whole underside of the roof was burning and was going to fall in." r "There's too many men here," said the Irish lieutenant. The line of firemen standing in single file against the wall extended down- stairs to the fourth floor. There was little for them to do. The two hoses which now led into the apartment had the fire almost com- The Some tow Price OR A MESH OXFORD pletely knocked down and even the smoke had largely disappeared. In the apartment next to the one that burned, a man was crying $ ! f'om Coo if fo Cooif Famous Quarts shoes, in gay new and sobbing to himself. "Oh, the evil that can befall a man," he 64 styles for spring are at your (dumb mourned, "the bad luck that a person can have." He was the man At Leading Stores Everywhere store now ! Styles to coptivote every Reconditioning Kit Extra for sanding, who lived in the apartment where the fire had started. He w as drunk. — dry cleaning, rtflnlshing, ate. youngster . . . boy or girl . . . toddler A fireman asked him what caused the fire. "The oil stove leaked," or early-teener. Mothers, too, will the man said loudly and with too much emphasis. "I can tell you love them ... for fit, construction and where I bought it and you can ask the man. He promised me it long wear. Your neorest (dumb wouldn't leak, but it did. You can ask him. He promised me." deoler has a pair to fit your youngster perfectly. A fireman came out of the burning apartment and said there were V*t some dogs inside, still alive. They were a mother dog and four pups, sheltering under a bed. The mother, a nondescript collie, was grow 1- ing at the firemen and would not let them near. A photographer from the Daily News, brought to the scene by the second alarm on the police radio, asked one of the firemen to pose with the dogs. The lieutenant from Engine 58 tried to pick up the mother, but she bared her teeth, and so he just leaned over tow ard her as the flashbulb went off. The man from the News was pleased. Also producers of Industrial Twin-Brush Floor Machines "This 11 get in the paper," he said. "This is good. 'Dog still protects pups after firemen save them all.' This'll get in." (It didn't.)

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COP! TRUCK COMPANY 26 continued

The firemen from 26 were all on the roof now, and McGowan and Hope were chopping and pulling to get the asphalt roofing away and expose the beams. It was not until two hours later, with dark- ness coming on, that they rode back to the firehouse. Damp weather They found Hook and Ladder Truck 22 sitting there. It had been "relocated"' from its own house on West 98th Street. The hazard to

life is so great in I larlcm that other companies are moved in as soon

as the local apparatus is in use on a major fire. In the 2,' i hours that 22 had been on relocation it had gone out to a three-alarm fire. Most of the men from 26 went back to the kitchen to have a cup of cofTee, but some stayed out front and washed off their helmets • No more need for cold, wet days to mean and boots in the big laundry sink. torture for you! You can take care of that Steinhauser put his hamburgers pain— relieve it quickly throbbing neuralgic on again, and some of the others and safely — with Absorbine Jr.! also got out food. This famous pain-relieving liniment has In a little while the alarm you feeling better with a speed that seldom sounded. Everyone counted. fails to astonish . . . because it goes to work the minute you apply it with two won- "Here we go again," said some- derfully beneficial actions. one, and they trotted out. Stein-

First, it warms and soothes those aching, hauser stopped at the stove to pain-wracked neuralgic areas. Second, it turn off the gas. counters the irritation that causes the pain "1478," said theman on watch. —with a grand, relaxing effect! "125th Street and Madison Av- Don't go letting neuralgic pain make life enue. Truck and Engine Second miserable for you on damp days. Join the Due." thousands who get fast relief with fire Absorbine Jr. Only $1.25 a long-lasting bot- There was no at the cor- tle wherever drugs are sold. ner when they arrived, but the LIEUTENANT of Truck 26 is Mi- First Due apparatus was gath- W. F. Young, Inc. Springflttd, Man. chael McAuley, 14 years a fire fighter. ered in the street halfway down Get fast relief with the block. The Truck went there. At the curb a car was burning. There was no need for a hook and ladder but they had to stand by until the chief gave the word to go back. Most of the men waited on The Truck. A mounted cop rode over and spoke to a fireman named Donohue. "How do you like the new shifts:'" he asked. Firemen now work AWine Jr. two 9-hour shifts and two 15-hour shifts per week, like the police, get one 48-hour period off each week. it feels so good! "Like it fine," said Donohue. "Me, too," said the cop. "Get to see my kids now. In the old days they asked the old lady who I was." "Let's go," shouted Reynolds from up front, and he raced the °* EASTERN SPRING engine several times. The men swung up on the side of The Truck, the cop rode off, and they went back to the house. there's nothing finer than Everybody had coffee again and one man said, "I'd like to go upstairs and sack out for awhile, but I suppose it's going to be a busy night." "Hell, yes," someone answered. "It's Friday and Lieutenant McAuley will be on in an hour." McAuley is a thin, blond officer THREE-PIECE SUIT with a sensitive English face. For some reason Truck 26 has more fires when he is on duty, but both he and the men are philosophical about this.

The Fire Department scandal BY the stove two men were talking about the Fire Department Quality makes it scandal which had been in New York newspapers almost daily. America's "The people think all firemen arc crooks just because one fireman largest selling ftjfctfj is supposed to have taken dough from the firemen's union fund," said one of them. "Everyone was always so friendly to firemen till Cat Food l]||jp this came up. Now they look the other way when you walk into a restaurant." SLUGGISH TODAY? "Maybe," said the other fireman, "he used the dough to bribe After 35, Do This - politicians so we could get better working conditions." "He sure hasn't helped us with all this publicity," said the first Use all vegetable Serutan designed especially for folks over 35. Serutan is different. Acts one. with Nature to give you daily regularity. Steinhauser went over to the stove to get his hamburgers again, Results are so pleasant, you'll be reminded but the alarm sounded and everyone ran out. "1264," called the of your younger _fOWDER GRANUIAI man on watch. "Park Avenue and 100th Street. Truck only. First Jacquord-knit, combed cotton, car- days. What a wonderful feeling to Due." The engine men went back in the kitchen as The Truck rolled digan and shorts with solid color be regular again! and out the door, bell ringing. T-shirt. Shorts have suspenders Get Serutan at all-around elastic waist; shirt is in- your drugstore This fire was on the top floor of a tenement building. "Always terlock knit and Shrink-Set* to fit today. Money-back on the top floor," muttered one fireman as he ran to the building. thru wear and wash. In several guarantee. A mattress and part of the wall behind the bed were smoldering. patterns and colors, each set gift- The First Due engine company had the fire out when 26 arrived. boxed. Sizes 2, 3, A . . . about ^98 BUSY HOUSEWIVES LOVE- A woman with her head done up in a white bandanna was talking at better stores or write for name fo EXCEllO^-P to a fireman. She had a British-Jamaican accent. "It was not my laundry $r*ah" kids," she said. "Every one of them was in the other room. It was MANCHESTER KNITTED FASHIONS, INC. KITCHEN the wiring behind the bed." She walked angrily out of the room, Empire State Building, New York 1 TOWELS HOUSEHOLD PLASTIC; pushing aside a fireman as she did so. One of the men from just Miffs: Manchester, New Hampshire 26, Curtain., Tobl.dothi. St.i Roai ot Lading Hera. walking in, asked, "What's she sore at you for?"

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TRUCK COMPANY 26 continue THE VACUUM BOTTLE EVERYBODY ASKS FOR "She's not sore at me," said the first fireman. "She's sore at the landlord. Everybody up here's sore at the landlord." The men went back to the firehouse again. When they got out to the kitchen, Green of the engine company was telling of a fire he'd STOMACH UPSET? had the night before when he was on duty with the other shift. Green is an ex-jazz musician who joined the Fire Department be- If you have "hunger pains," heartburn, frequent stomach upsets or indigestion due to excess stomach acid cause he got tired of one-night stands. by all means see your doctor — and start taking Sedagel. For excess stomach acid is believed to be a "It turns out," he was saying, "that the guy in the street was common cause of peptic ulcers. Users say Sedagel acts right his wife l«M inside. But you know how it is there's always faster — lasts longer than anything else they've ever — — tried. Sedagel "sponges up" biting, burning acid- somebody on the street screaming 'My brother's in there,' and then then it spreads a coating over stomach and intestinal walls that soothes and protects. Get Scihfid today! later they find him out in the street watching the fire, but they don't tell you this and you take a terrible licking trying to get inside to save the brother. This guy last night was a Scandinavian — a Nor- wegian, I think—and he said a couple of times, speaking kind of soft, 'My wife's in there.' "Well, we couldn't get to her. It was one of those railroad flats and the flames were coming out into the corridor so you couldn't get near the rooms. We didn't think she was in there anyway until Briggs&Stratton one guy from 14 walked out and said there was a roast inside. Pretty soon some of the guys carried her out and she was still breathing GASOLINE ENGINES and not even burned. But what a load of smoke she must have had. They took her away in the ambulance." "Did she live?" someone asked.

"I suppose so," said Green. "I didn't see anything about it in today's paper." This trade-mark ii your guide to all that "Anybody want to go upstairs and watch television?" a man » best in sinjrle-cylinder, l-cvcle, air-cooled gasoline asked. Three or four of the men got up to go, but one said, "Not igioe performance. unless Dagmar's on." Five men stayed in the kitchen, most of them BRIGGS 1 STRATTON COBPOBftTION eating, some reading. Steinhauser finally got to eat his hamburgers. . Milmukii I.Wiseiirn. U.S.A. Earl Hope started a new conversation. "You know what I like to do? I like to go into an Italian restaurant and then casually start talking to the waiter in Italian. Boy, that sure impresses the girls." Everybody laughed. Hope, as they all knew, was an Army interpreter in Italy during the war. He also speaks French. "I'll tell you something else I like to do," he said. "I like to go to a movie and find out what the music is that's playing in the background. Then >• I go back with my wife and some of her girl friends and I lean over COUGHS casually, like I never been to the movie before, and I say, 'Listen to that music they're playing— the Symphonie Pathetique, isn't it?' Boy, are they impressed." Hope let out a big, infectious laugh ..DRY-THROAT and the others joined in. A moment later he said, "I guess that makes me pretty mean." "No," said Steinhauser, "it just makes you pretty human." 5 pleasing flavors | Qt Nobody talked for a while. Hunt and McCarron played checkers, -DUt TO COLOt WORLD FAMOUS HSCE 1110

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two of the men washed dishes and others read. One man was read- NEURITIS? ing a photography magazine and another the Fire Department magazine, With Netv York Firemen. NEURALGIA? In a half hour the alarm rang again, and men came sliding down HEADACHE? "1361 the poles. — Madison Avenue and 113th Street. Engine and Truck. Both First Due." This time they had not rolled more than a block before they saw the flames in the sky. When they arrived in front of the dingy apartment building the fire escape was filled with people, many of them carrying babies. The people milled around on the first level, not knowing how to free the drop ladder which led to the sidewalk. The driver and the tillerman rushed over to the fire escape with a 25- foot ladder and climbed up. They freed the drop and then rushed past the tenants up the escape and into the building. Inside the building the engine men soon had the hose linked up and were standing in the hall outside the burning door to the apartment. Smoke was pushing through the door in puffs, a sure sign that there was intense pressure of heat and smoke inside. They waited for the men who had gone up the escape to break holes in the back fast pain relief with . . Get wall to open up the apartment above. When this was done the door was knocked in. Three firemen — Keavney and Green of58, and Stein- hauser of 26— took the nozzle and started into the apartment. They disappeared from view into the smoke, trailing the hose slowly behind them. Out in the street several people who came down the ladder were seeking out firemen and saying, "Please go to the top floor and help the woman up there. She has a sick husband who can't move and Bufferin she won't leave him." The firemen assured them that other fire- IMOH auk men were already at the roof. Inside the top floor apartment the woman with the bedridden husband heard the heavy glass skylight crash down to the stairs as the truck men worked on the roof. She opened the window and tried to attract attention. Nobody heard her above the noise of the engines, so she threw her husband's cane out the window. (An old firemen's trick: when trapped on a burning roof they throw a hel- Acts twice as fast as aspirin! met to the street.) The cane landed in front of two policemen who were keeping the Doesn't upset the stomach! crowd back. They entered the building, worked their way through the smoke and hoses and firemen, and went to the top floor apart-

IP YOU SUFFER FROM ARTHRITIS OB RHIUMATISM. ASK YOUR PHYSICIAN ABOUT BUFFERIN ment. There they assured the woman she was in no immediate danger but, just to be on the safe side, they lifted her husband into his wheelchair and carried him to the roof. He sat there shrouded in a blanket until the fire was over.

A woman and a dog

the first floor the smoke was still heavy. Cascades of water ONpoured down the stairs to the front entrance. Standing on the second step and looking upward was a woman in tears, hysteri- cally pleading with firemen who went by. "My dog! Get my dog!" she screamed to the firemen coming into the building. The firemen tramped by. "Save my dog!" she shouted again. She tried to stop the next man. "You don't care about a dog, do you? You don't care nothing at all!" The fireman did not stop. He could not have saved his own mother if she were in the apartment that was on fire, but there was clear- ly no sense trying to explain this to the woman. Another fireman walked in from the street. "Was it a white dog?" he asked. "No, no," she cried. "His name was Lindy. Oh, Lindy, oh, oh!" More smoke and more water came down the stairs, and she went out into the street. On the second floor the hose had advanced 20 feet into the apartment. But now there was no more slack in the hallway and a shout came through the smoke: "Lighten up on the line!" A lot of voices yelled, "Lend a hand." Firemen grabbed the hose and pulled some more of it in from the street. There were the sounds that go with fire fighting: the rumble of a high-pressure hose as it hits a parti- tion; the hiss as water hits flames; coughing; muffled calls to "Get

a 2) 2-inch line in here! . . . Make way! . . . Where is 53 at? . . .

They're up above. . . . Go in and relieve those men." Now there was a new shout. The Irish lieutenant who had been at the afternoon fire hurried out of the adjoining apartment to the landing and went up to the ranking officer on the scene, a young captain on duty with Engine Company 58 who was in command in the absence of the battalion chief. "They're trapped out there!" the lieutenant said excitedly. "The fire's going over them." He was referring to Hope and others from Truck 26 on the rear fire escape.

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The acting chief did BOt seem impressed. He w as the picture of a man being cool in a crisis, just like the book said. He looked at the lieutenant, who was older than he. and spoke slowly: "Take 53"s 2,' 2-inch line out there." At this point a fire hose burst with a loud thump behind the lieutenant and the young captain. W atcr shot up, hit the ceiling and sprayed all over. The Irish lieutenant looked startled. The captain merely glanced casually over his shoulder. It was 53's 2) 2-inch line,

but now it was not going to be needed, because Hope and the others came through the smoke in the adjoining apartment from the fire escape. They stood in the hall looking slightly apologetic about leaving their position. They said that the flames, forced outside by the fire hoses on tw o floors, were hitting the cast-iron fire escape

in so many places that it was too hot to touch or stand on. Inside the burning apartment Keavnev was ready for air. As the first man on the nozzle he had the hardest job and. in the normal course of events, w ould be the first one to leave the line and go out. After taking a breather, he would then get on the line again and work his w ay forward as other men advanced to the nozzle and then took a break themselves. But w hen Keavney turned to pass the nozzle to the man behind him he saw the big red shield of the truck men on his hat. (Engine men wear black.) It was Steinhauser. Keavnev. though nearly ex- hausted, refused to pass the hose to a "truckle." He wouldn't have passed it to another engine man either, unless he was from 58, his

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needed and use it there, but they won't let anyone else do their work. Keavney would not pass the nozzle to Steinhauser. He wanted

to give it to Green of Engine 58 who w as right behind Steinhauser. Steinhauser is a friendly man, but he is strongly competitive. And he is a giant. He blocked the passing of the nozzle back to Green. Keavney, though near exhaustion, turned back and continued to work the lead position. Steinhauser gently but firmly began to bring his great weight to bear on him. Soon Kea\ ney had to give up. Stein- hauser took over the nozzle.

Two more firemen done in

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She speaks for 5,000 other homeless Jews who will it. Each time your answer came quickly, decisively. sleep tonight in a cemetery. It is a Jewish cemetery, In less than three years the funds you contributed to In 1951—Before Time Runs Out thousands of years old, in a land that was once part the United Jewish Appeal brought 500,000 homeless —the United Jewish Appeal Must: of the living men, and children lands to Babylonian Empire. Here men, women women from of despair Save 200,000 homeless Jews by bringing them and children have found a temporary haven— a make- freedom in Israel. to Israel from danger zones in Eastern Europe shift resting place as they wait. and Arab lands. Surely your answer to those who ask for help now Help the people of Israel make their country a She asks: "How many more nights will we sleep will come with equal speed. Surely your answer now bulwark of democracy — aiding them estab- here on the tombstones of our fathers?" by must be that you will give all you can— today — while lish 120 new agricultural settlements; build She asks: "Will we be rescued and taken to Israel the world situation still permits the rescue of these housing units for 40.000; care for 50.000 immi- while there is still time—before exit doors shut?" 5,000 Jews in the cemetery — and of 200,000 others grants in reception centers plus 15,000 children and 5,000 aged and handicapped. She asks you these questions, for the help she and who wait for deliverance from danger zones of East- Supply relief, care and rehabilitation assist- the others need must come through you, through the ern Europe and Arab lands. ance to 400,000 distressed Jews in Europe and 1951 UNITED JEWISH APPEAL. Arab countries, of children. Rescue is just one of the huge and urgent tasks the 90,000 them Wliat are you going to tell her? Resettle in this country and in other western United Jewish Appeal must undertake this vear. That democracies a total of 25,000 displaced Jews Last year the Jews of Yemen asked the same ques- is why you are asked to give immediately ... to give from Europe. tion. The year before the Jews of the DP Camps asked generously ...to give more than ever before.

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room, stretched out prone behind an easy chair. It was a big, gentle- looking dog. "If he's dead I don't want to see him," the woman said. The fireman touched the dog softly and said, "I think he's breathing." But when he turned his llashlight beam in the dog's eyes there was no reaction. "I was only pushing the breath out of him," said the fireman quietly. He told the woman not to look and carried the dog past her and into the hallway. There he met the young captain, who said, "Where are you going with that dog?" "I was going to take him out front," said the fireman. "The A.S.P.C.A. will come and get him." "They won't come for a dead dog," said the captain. "Put him back in the apartment." Battalion Chief Dudley, a wise and pleasant-looking man, arrived to relieve the young captain. Several firemen came to relieve some of the Engine 58 men who were due to go off duty. They were part of

a new shift ; nd had driven to the fire from the station in a taxi. There was little for Chief Dudley to do now except supervise the overhauling. In an hour the overhauling was done and Chief Dudley sent 26 back to quarters. It was late in the evening and most of the bed. Hope, Steinhauser Send 10< for NEW 16-page booklet with 100 tips ou "Good Ta>te Today*," Box A-13, Oneida, N. V. men went up to Only and McGowan were in the kitchen. "So McGowan and I left Macy's to join the Fire Department," Hyp SOttjp Jiffif<' flit fn/ / Just as yon always spoon soup said Steinhauser to Hope. "Why did you join?" away from you, tip your plate so that in case of a spill the tablecloth gets wet, Hope smiled. "It was a matter of expediency," he replied. "My not you! Just as important as your good manners are your table appointments. wife looked at my actual income as a posl-oflice clerk and my po- Nothing sets off your table so well as a smart set of matched silverware. tential income as a fireman. 'Earl,' she said, 'you're going to be a An 1881 (R) Rogers (R)* Service for 8 is only $39.75, chest included. fireman.'" A really fine value . . . compare it for good looks, good wear, superb design. "How did you feel about it?" Three lovely patterns to choose from. 'The last thing in the world I wanted was to be a fireman. My earliest childhood fears were always about fire. Every time I woke

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Hope seemed surprised. "If you don't like it you never finish your six months probationary period," he said. "I'll tell you something, FOR THE1 MAN but I wouldn't want it repeated around the house. You know how all these guys want a pay raise. Well, God knows they need it, but the truth of the matter is they'd stay firemen if their pay was cut IN 7 WHO in half. They can't help it." He paused for a moment. Then he pointed a finger to his chest and continued, "I never admitted this before," he said, "but it hurts me inside here—really hurts me—when SHAVES DAILY I'm off duty and I hear The Truck go by."

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WIFE FLIES HIGH at beach as Mick hoists Betty in air. She has a Bikini

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Copyrighted mate AS NEPHEWS WATCH FROM POND, BOSA BEGINS SKETCH FOR PAINTING

LOUIS BOSA PAINTS A FAMILY REUNION

In 1 923 Louis Rosa, aged 17, left his home in Codroipo, Italy, northeast of Venice, and headed for the U.S. In New York, working part time as an interpreter and waiter, Bosa hegan to study art, soon became known for his rakish and whimsical paintings of life in the Italian section. Last summer Bosa went back to Italy to visit the town he had not seen for 27 years. To his surprise he found that everything was much smaller than he had remembered, hut the Bosa family itself was so big it seemed to overrun the whole town. Everyone was a relative — the may- or, the shoemaker, the blacksmith, the policeman, the hotelkeeper, the seven priests, the street cleaner—and most of them came around to celebrate his home- coming with wine, kisses and a day-long banquet in his honor (right). Bosa stayed five months, visiting with and sketching more than 150 of his relatives. When he came back to the U.S. he brought with him a gently humorous and affection- ate album of family portraits, the best of which appear on the following pages.

MOTHER AND FATHER sal "talking like sweethearts" while their son sketched them. Mother, 72, died while Bosa was visiting them. Father, a stone carver, used to tend water mill. Now, almost blind, he listens to radio.

UNCLE AGNUL, the town auctioneer, r.H \M»MOTHKK. 95. iv- held sells horses which lie buys from gypsies. crucifix. She put on lipstick before Bos; Agnul, 5 feet tall, married 6-foot woman. sketched her to look "nice for America.'

Copyrighted m FAMILY RE1 NION held outdoors near stream that Hows pa-l the llosa mill. On left

side i>| table Mother Hosa sil- prirulv beside

her newly returned son. Next to Louis i- his father, already nodding over the wine while

a prie>t. who i- also a con-in. oilers hitn an-

OUier glass. At right, busily eating, i- I nclc Agnul. In the foreground Hosa'- youngest and tallest si>ler pauses while bringing on more foot). Two more cousins provide the music. At lelt niece- ami nephews plav pirate with hoat

lto-a huitt w hen he was 1 1 . In carriage in back-

ground i- stranger who slopped hv to watch cclehrution. Mural- were done on other side mm P« ol buildings liy uncle and great-grandfather, hut Boss Iran-lcrrcd them lor his painting.

\(M M UJE married a farmer the year lli.it lio-a |el| ( - »r tlir U.S. Now COUSIN SlUOT a town gravedigger and her oldest children art' married, ami her youngest i- only 3. All tlir young drives hearse. On duty he wears hat with gold one* work in the field- to help their father, who -till uses a homemade rake. hraid, carries long whip hut is never shaved.

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PHILLIPS' MILK"MAGNESIA not only relieves constipation, SISTKR M ARIA goes oil to cornfields on an old bicycle. She has ripped up gEnJi ne but accompanying acid an umbrella to shield baby from the sun. Nephew has come along for the ride. PHILLIPS indigestion, too! N^S^n^ THREE TABLESPOONFULS FOR CONSTIPATIONI Phillips' Milk of Magnesia gives you more complete NO REST FOI1 THE WOMEN relief when irregularity troubles you because it does more than lazy laxatives which merely relieve constipation. When you take Phillips', you also get his When Bosa left home his sister Velina (belou) was a baby, while relief from the acid indigestion which often accom- children, so sister Maria {above), the youngest of the 1 1 Bosa children, had not yet panies constipation. So gentle for thorough for grownups, Phillips' can be taken Bosa found them married and busily raising been born. On bis return without thought of embarrassing urgency. children. They were also busy doing all the things Bosa's mother used j ONE TABLE SPOONFUL FOR ACID UPSET! Phillips' t(. do— making cheese, tending the fowl, sewing clothes, washing laun- contains one of the fastest, most effective neutral- the willow trees for firewood. In dry in the midstream and trimming izes of excess stomach acids known. It brings you September they both went out to the vineyards w ith the men to harvest almost instant relief from upset stomach, gas, heart- other symptoms of acid indigestion. the grapes. The children also had their chores. W hen the grapes were burn and picked and dumped into huge vats, the youngsters were turned loose to LIQUID PHILLIPS' AVAILABLE IN 75c. SIM AND 25c BOTTLES for year's w ine. slither around in the vats and trample out the juice next PHILLIPS' TABLETS IN It. 00, 50< AND ?5c SIZES 4 GOOD POINT TO RCMc^g TOES IRRITATED?

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Since horses are scarce and expensive, the cows of Cudroipo do all the work. In ihc drawings helow, llosa sketched his sister Angela, who is No use knowing married to a farmer, pulling the cow through its daily chores. In the cornfields she coaxes her to pull the old-fashioned plow. \Y hen the plow- pick How to 'em in;; is ill me Angela rides home on the hack of the cow, w ith the leftovers of the day's lunch in a basket in front of her. The day ends with the If your evening milking. On Sundays the cow is harnessed to a wagon to pull Half-shaved whiskers the lamilv to church. Neighbors hop onto the wagon along the way Her only respite comes during the church services, when she can nib- Stick 'em ble the grass by the side of the road and contemplate the church gates. Burma-Shave

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WHAT'S IN A PICTURE . . .

Yourself at ten remembered?

Young muscles, the speed of the wind . . . and

J\im, run as fast as you can ..." your own self running across the meadow, or down

"Rea'dy or not, here I come ..." •the street. What's in a picture? Can a picture make

"Red rover, red rover, let Jimmy come over.' you feel your own feet flashing over the ground,

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...... eyewitness great events LIFE . to see life to see the world to

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r Alp climbers know the ropes or else —

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2 "Every man a Hercules," these Swiss muscle-men "A man's life may depend on anything in the back-breaking 4 ** 'Done like a veteran/ the strain in a tup-of-war tiiat would snap almost anything Inud a puide totes. So before every climb, his rucksack, sleeping guides said back at Meiringen. I was short of steel cable. If their heave-hos didn't break my bap, lantern, spikes and picks get close scrutiny. And a good plad enough just to be back . . . and rope, nothing would. They make just as sure about thinp. too — if those securely driven spikes had given way I'd to find that the little inn served mv all their pear... never have got off that cliff in one piece. favorite whisky . . . Canadian Club!

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